July 21, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 128 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

[Pages H3596-H3597]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            REVIEWING AMERICA'S ROLE IN GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, on Thursday, the 
Commission on Unalienable Rights of the State Department report was 
released, as reviewed by Walter Russell Mead in The Wall Street Journal 
on Friday. The commission was chaired by Harvard legal scholar Mary Ann 
Glendon.
  ``America's founding was the most significant event in the history of 
human rights. . . . Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who convened the 
commission . . . doubled down on the combative and incendiary nature of 
the report.''
  ``Mr. Pompeo summarized their central contention about America's role 
in the global fight for human rights in nine memorable words: `America 
is special. America is good. America does good.' It upholds a limited 
concept of

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unalienable, God-given rights grounded in sovereign nation-states.
  ``The Unalienable Rights Commission report is a thoughtful and 
carefully reasoned document that may serve as an important landmark in 
future debates.''
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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