Honorable Sam Brownback
United States Senator, Kansas, Republican
Senator Brownback was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. He serves on the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The following is excerpted from the March 4, 2009, Senate floor debate on the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009. This is an issue we have debated for some time, the Kemp-Kasten language, although it has been in since 1985. Our colleagues have put it in there. I want to put a personal feel and touch on this issue. This is a story about a young couple in China. Yang Zhongchen was a small-town businessman, and he wined and dined three government…
