Desperation of the abuses they suffered at the hands of the chinese government. If it was not for this commission, nobody would know how the buddhists are being persecuted in tibet. In short, the commission has been and with passage of this legislation will continue to be the voice of the marginalized, oppressed and persecuted people who dare to worship, who dare to worship, according to the dictates of their conscience. The commission can be relied upon to consistently give the unvarnished truth, as mr. Smith said, about the true religious freedom in countries around the globe, whether they are strategic allies or adversaries. The commission is unhindered by the bureaucratic mores a that stymied the state department during democratic and republican administrations alike. Given the state of religious Freedom Abroad today, the sobering reality is that the commissions voice is as needed more now than ever before. I urge unanimous passage of this and yield back the balance of my time. The
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welcome, everybody. right to breaking news. two western journalists including an american journalist has been killed in syria. the american is marie colvin who reported from syria for us just hours ago as he was talking to anderson cooper on this network. remi ochlik is a french photographer who was also killed. it happened in the city of homs. we have new videotape to show you. this is showing you the rubble from that videotape where the shelling rather, where the journalists were killed. and last night when she was talking to anderson on ac 360, mary colvin talked about the murder, as she put it, that she sees happening in that scity every single day. this is the worse, anderson, for many reasons. i think the last time we talked when i was what mathere s nowhe to run. the syrian army is holding the perimeter. there s far more ordnance being poured into this city and no way of predicting where it s going to land. mary colvin, you see her there with an eye patch over he