. The bill, which was seen as an uncontroversial measure because of its broad bipartisan support, passed by voice vote because a recorded vote was not requested."Democrats and Republicans in the House and in the Senate stand united with the people of Hong Kong," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said."If America does not speak out for human rights in China because of commercial interest, then we lose all moral authority to speak out for human rights anyplace in the world.
House members on Tuesday afternoon also passed by voice vote two other Hong Kong-related measures: a resolution supportive of the protesters and the PROTECT Hong Kong Act.
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I fail to understand why lawmakers made a law to support another country. Not only that, but most of them are criticizing America. This makes no sense.
MINGJAI16 7 Million? That’s half the population!
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Thank you senators who support HKHumanRightsandDemocracyAct , thank you for making this happens. 5DemandsNot1Less FightForFreedom StandWithHongKong
What a shame！
What a shame！
what a shame！
Wake up people. America doesn’t have FreeSpeech, freedom or a real democracy. We rig elections and Google facebook Wikipedia etc. censors info and people who disagree them. America is world’s capital for FakeNews 🇺🇸 hongkong democracy freedom
Liar! 100% fake news! Not even 10% of the 7 million
Good news
much appreciation!
Thank you for standing with Hong Kong. US Congress, Thank you very much. All the Representatives Thank you so much.
That's really interesting. Why don't they just go to the US and become a colony
700万示威者，香港媒体都不敢吹的牛让CNN给吹了...
It's the solidarity of Hongkongers keep us go this far together with the support from the democratic world. StandWithHongKong FightForFreedom
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Thanks for the support! StandwithHK
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