>> [speaking chinese] >> translator: and to rally congressional support and hopefully executive-branch support and hopefully worldwide support for door extended family as well as your friends. >> [speaking chinese] >> translator: if i could ask you very briefly -- >> has the united states government our embassy been able to in any way make contact with your extended family and friends who are at grave risk and suffering beatings crux >> [speaking chinese] i'm not free career on the specifics, but i do know the u.s. embassy has been communicating with me everyday. >> your wife and children, how well are they doing on this enormous burden clacks >> [speaking chinese] mcminn they're doing fine especially my children, my wife and i that this is such a wonderful place we can play outside, and he said you can tell from what they told my wife and i held terrible back to our home town. >> [speaking chinese] >> translator: because my wife and children have been under such a long time of difficulty with of the nutrition and lubber and pressure -- low blood pressure and when i saw them under the circumstances i felt very saddened. >> [speaking chinese] the panel witnesses to suggest to hire his own lawyers not to accept the government appointed lawyers for his family members. >> i am wondering whether there is any lawyer that has been accepted to be. we have heard there are 13 at least one has been beaten and one has had his license revoked and i am wondering specifically. i wonder he has offered, and i am wondering how he is doing. we haven't had much news of him. >> [speaking chinese] >> [speaking chinese] i do know that many lawyers are waiting and wanting to go and i feel they will be able to go and they are planning to go. listening to your voice right now there are large members of the people and c-span as broadcasting this throughout america. but would you like to tell the american public? >> [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] i want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all of those who cared and loved my family and myself in our situation and especially to the american people who show their care about the equality and justice and i am very grateful to all of you. >> [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] we are proud of you as a hero of america and many meetings are very encouraged by your creator's act, i just do what my conscience asks me to do and when facing this against women and children so this is what i should do. >> [speaking chinese] he also said that he said that what i have done is just my conscience and conviction i cannot be silent when i see and face these kinds of evils. >> [speaking chinese] >> you are the first to stand up for this 30 years policy on behalf of this chinese babies that are forcefully aborted and killed so we praise you and thank you and appreciate you. [speaking chinese] thank you so much. we will continue. this is the third hearing. the first one was last november when we thought you had disappeared. this is the third hearing and i can assure u.s. both the chairman of the china commission and the human rights committee of the house of representatives we will never cease in our advocacy for you and you're extended family and friends and the important human rights cause that u.s. gross of women for the crime of forced abortion and sterilization so thank you so much. >> [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] >> i want to let you know i've been praying for you and you and your courage has inspired all of our women and we have been praying for you every day this evil policy will be abolished soon [speaking chinese] i have a final word i want to emphasize. what had happened to my family, to my extended family members or a total violation including the chinese relevance all about family planning system so what they have done is just totally in violation of the chinese role so they should be held accountable by the chinese own wall, so that's what i want to emphasize. thank you. >> thank you. we are close to completing this hearing and i want to thank our distinguished witnesses and ask them if they might have some final comments they would like to make. i do and i say this with all due respect to the president of the united states i am concerned when the government when president obama was asked about human rights he said no comment and the human-rights, quote it comes up we are in the process of began changing reappraisal of human rights in china and perhaps elsewhere in the world but no so loosely in china where wittingly or unwittingly we have been able in this terrible crime of forced abortion and sterilization to occur will we look and act as if it wasn't happening. he stands in solidarity with the women of china as do all i and so many members of congress as this panel so if you would like to make any statements because i think we have heard it all just a moment ago if anyone would like to make a final statement before we conclude the hearing. >> i would like to --. as one of the victims like the past three years think you for your persistence may god bless you and all the work you are doing and we do believe this year the policy will come to an end to encourage the american leaders including president obama, psychiatry clinton and other leaders to join us, the people to bring about an end to this perfect crime against humanity. thank you. >> i want to thank our distinguished witnesses. we will continue pursuing the case until it is resolved successfully and the focus that he has brought on the policy will increase in terms of focus, scrutiny and god willing it will end. the hearing is adjourned. >> [inaudible conversations] more than ten days since the secretary left. i expected to use this conversation with of the chinese government it's gotten to the point you're processing paperwork -- >> let me start by saying all of the processing on the u.s. side has been completed. we are ready when he and his government already. we have been for more than a week now in terms of his visa for studies. he's continuing to work with his government with information that those conversations, contacted continuance we've been in regular contact with him to were three times a day every day. >> when you say all the processing is complete -- >> him, his wife and his children. >> the second he gets a document from the chinese he can get out? >> we will be prepared to do what we need to do on the u.s. embassy site as soon as he is ready reading has become over the last 200 years the ultimate space act of the ultimate space country because it makes it possible for the many and to teach themselves what is at few. the president can quote mark twain and the postman can understand the reference because he is, too said the demagoguery although still possible recall years a lot more stultz and cleverness because of careful reading of books and newspapers and material on the internet they are revealed to ordinary people like us. it wasn't for nothing that the nazis made bonfires a book. senator barbara boxer chairs the committee working on legislation dealing with of the nation's roads, bridges and mass transit. today she says she's optimistic the house and senate can come to an agreement on the bill. her news conference this afternoon was about 15 minutes. >> hi everybody. i want to try to complete this before i have to go down for the next vote. at the opening of the surface transportation bill conference on may 8th i said i would give regular updates so here i am to talk about the progress. i'm not going to be addressing specific negotiations between the conferees but i can tell you we have moved past the organization and we've had about 20 hours today staff to staff and we are now working on the substance of the bill. the staff has been meeting every day all the issues. we broke down into groups centered around the committee's you would have the senator working on the pay for us and senator rockefeller transportation safety on the highways, bridges. you would have the banking committee dealing with transnet and then the other issues we've broken down there are other issues restore act and xl and payment in lieu of taxes and various items in the act by myself and senator baucus and that it gives you a sense of the way we've broken it down. vice chairman mike and i have been in touch by phone and we have meetings on thursday and all i will be briefing members this week. the process has been inclusive and i expect that to lead to a good result every conferee to the most senior at this point through the staffing and november i'm also doing one-on-one discussions in my office having coffee doing meetings with individual members that have issues they want to talk about so i am optimistic they will reach agreement on this bill, and again we are starting from a very bipartisan senate bill which passed 74-22. it has many proposals to house the support including ansi will know a leveraging mechanism we use the will create new jobs. we also have new program consolidations and giving states more flexibility. a lot of reforms, no earmarks' so these are things the house wants to see happen now as well. the conference was up and running in record time because the bill was so important to the workers and businesses in our economy that's when the transportation extension expires in and we know they are for jobs and businesses in our country. there's another reason i am optimistic about this and i want to the about for you. two days ago the commerce wrote an op-ed in politico the road a piece that speaks to every member that talks about how the transit systems and needs of the submissive upgrades and a talk about this disarray of the infrastructure they say that without a successful highway conference congress would have to cut the highway transit and safety programs by 60 per cent according to the analysis by the association of the transportation officials so it couldn't be stronger and i would strongly suggest we might take a look at this on the 15th of may, so they are very clear and call and talk about how the vigilante authorities won't work so that's the reason i'm optimistic because obviously we have the best majority of democrats in favor of the senate bill and a tremendous support of republicans, support of republicans in the senate and we have to persuade the house republicans and chamber of commerce has been supportive of house republicans in every way you can think of. in addition, today called off the press life or ten minutes ago is a historic letter about using i believe we have copies it's a communication to the conference on the authorization of the surf to the chris surface transportation. it's almost unheard of some of the groups would be on the same letter and if you hear the message you'll see why i'm optimistic we will get a conference report. first, the message john behalf of our organizations we were gone at 21 by passing the report to get a bill to the president to the transportation program expires on june 30th this is the historic moment because the american economy is at risk and the nation is behind on our infrastructure needs the nation's economy is at a critical stage and this bill can be a factor entering the strength in the world economy and they say a few more things and conclude this legislation must be passed before the june 40th deadline to create jobs and keep america on the cutting edge of transportation infrastructure development. the american association of state highway transportation officials the national asphalt pavement association the american trucking association i had a meeting in my office they are strongly behind the bill the society of civil engineers and association of the manufacturers, the automobile association, the general contractors of america, the national makarov association the american road and transportation builders association, the transportation department the international union for america, the chamber of commerce, the national association of manufacturers, the american public transportation association, american highway, the bridge tunnel association i would say to you i'm working on a parallel strategy one is an outside strategy. everyone anticipates and walks through the bill everyone gets their questions answered. everyone gets to put their ideas on the table and the al-sayyid strategy is to continue to encourage these incredibly powerful and important organizations to weigh in on the side of the bill so i am happy to take what ever questions you may have. 62 to the estimate it will be included. how it all comes out is what we are great to be talking about. i support every part of the restore act in the gulf states it has an ocean trust and a piece that deals with the landing conservation fund that is important to the country. i heard a woman's voice over here. -- [inaudible] my door is open to everybody but i'm having individual meetings with those that have asked for those and have reached out for me and a couple of those refreshments point interest because of the reasons one is the fact we do have this important question that's active in every one of the states and everyone of our states so we all have a lot on the line. if you look at -- i said this numerous times so forgive me if it's boring to you i always think of this as super bowl stadiums full of people and there are unemployed construction workers and that image in my mind drives them forward and i am hoping it's driving them forward, too because everyone of us gets thousands and thousands of jobs from this bill and thousands of businesses will be saved and kept coming in the businesses so let me say every member on the committee has my deep respect because the leadership chose them and they are working together and everyone i have an open door to all of them. i met particular -- i am heading that working group along with max baucus to get that done. >> it has tremendous appeal and to restore act has tremendous appeal. i do believe that and i think we will help the engine to get this to the line. >> [inaudible] we haven't gotten to the areas of disagreement and we will and we will let you know the democrats live with those that have keystone in that we didn't get 60 votes, so we have to figure out a way to get to that hurdle figure out but we haven't gotten down to that. what we are doing now is walking through the bill and getting the various of agreement and that is what we are doing. >> [inaudible] i'm in a conference representing the senate and white said it from the start this. we have to find a sweet spot so we can get 60 votes because of somebody doesn't like it as you know the filibuster's we have to get the votes on the bill so there isn't quite the keystone in the bill? >> i'm not saying anything about keystone or pilt and they're working on of these issues. we've been in negotiation for a week and it's really been getting to it so when we resolve these issues believe me i will be here explaining them to you. i will be here every week. have there been any members that say that keystone -- >> no one has lead to the wind and the stand if you listen to the opening statement people say why did you call such a big conference to hear from everybody i have a reason. i want to hear what they say and what i thought was most encouraging to me is i didn't hear anybody a draw the line in the sand and say if i don't get my way on this i'm out of here. i didn't hear that from anybody, and i am happy about that because i think it gives a chance to work together to see if you can't work together we are not quick to do it. we have to meet each other in the center. we cannot stay in our corner. how did we ever get a building in half and boxer a bill that was agreed to buy bachus and fitter and sanders and sessions? this isn't easy but you've got to listen to each other and work together and that is what i plan to do in this conference. >> [inaudible] >> i talked to the chairmen yesterday and we agreed we need to find the funding and to a longer bill and i am very optimistic on the funding side because i think senator baucus and the congressman are working in good faith on that. we need time to figure of a long-term solution to how we solve transportation. we have to come up with that. obviously we need to sit back and look at how we are going to do that. especially with cars doing better and better in fuel economy and we know we have to find another mechanism. >> anyone else besides trimming mica -- >> everybody is included for the briefing and yes, i have several meetings set up for this week. i don't think it is necessary to say with whom but i have several meetings and i will continue as the days go by. okay. thank you very much. appreciate it. the george w. bush institute held in the event that held a celebration of human freedom in washington today to read it includes a video conference interview with activists and nobel peace prize winner the eighth. begins with the executive director james glassman. [applause] >> good morning president and mrs. bush, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to a celebration of human freedom. volume jim glassman the founding executive director of the churchill you bush institute. the bush institute is part of the george w. bush presidential center now in the final stages of construction on the campus of southern methodist university in dallas. it's a great building designed by robert stern tweed platinum specifications to the highest environmental standards. we hope to see you at the dedication less than a year from now. the bush institute itself has been operating for more than two years. we've mounted ten programs and six areas of engagement, economic growth, education reform, global health, the women's initiative, the military service initiative and human freedom. our mission in human freedom is to extend liberty to oppress the nations around the world. advancing freedom is the goal in fact in each of our areas of engagement. in africa for example we are leading a fight against women's cancer with the other dozen partners including the u.s. the department. no woman can be truly free to make choices that will improve the lives of members of her family as she suffers from preventable and curable cervical cancer. no young person in america is free to pursue his dreams that the education system feels him. so we are out to improve america's school principals and middle schools and the u.s. economy fails to grow robustly americans will lack the freedom and opportunity the desert and desire so we are aiming at a target of 4% economic growth. in the area of human freedom itself, the centerpiece of the work is called the freedom collection living archive that documents the global struggle for democracy and human freedom. the freedom collection features video interviews and compelling writings and artifacts that tell the stories of dissidents and freedom advocates. i'd like to acknowledge the architect of the freedom collection, joseph rees, lindsey lead who's the director of the freedom collection a and the president of the push foundation. i'd also like to thank april and kristen for organizing this event. on march 28 in dallas the president and mrs. bush launched www.freedomcollectionorg for online portal to the collection. to date we've interviewed approximately 60 leading freedom advocates from around the world including nobel laureates, a senior statesman and women, cyber dissidents, religious leaders and others we will do hundreds of interviews and these are the non-violent troops of liberty. portions are available on the web site. www.freedomcollection.org features sections on particular countries to help provide background at context for the interviews and also short films on featured themes, prisoners of conscience, women as human rights defenders, messages from dissidents and others. several of the re