I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. I reserve the balance of my time. Gentlemen. Reserves. Gentlemen. Recognize. Mr. Speaker, let's go back to 1979. The executive branch sometimes does not get it right as we saw with President Jimmy Carter who adopted the one China policy here. And Congress had to step in with the Taiwan Relations act in order to make sure that Taiwan was identified as a country. And that's what we've seen in the ensuing time since approximately 1980. (03:41–03:55)
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Asserts that Carter's adoption of the one China policy was a mistake.
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