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The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Should We Ban Lobbyists From Representing China?

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.9627 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Should We Ban Lobbyists From Representing China?

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0:00.0

Research that resonates.

0:05.0

Schweitzer has not been wrong on any of his years and years of reporting on the Bidens.

0:12.0

Investigations that matter.

0:14.0

If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma?

0:19.0

I don't know. I don't know. Probably not. But that's, you know, I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't fired. The only entities, the only people that would report on this, and Peter Schweizer, who deserves a medal of freedom in my view. This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer. Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer. Welcome to The Drill Down,

0:41.2

where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington, D.C.

0:46.7

My co-host is always Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? I'm so terrific, Peter. And judging by,

0:52.2

judging, well, I just wanted to accentuate how much better than you sound I am today.

0:56.1

Well, that's right.

0:56.7

I am getting over yet another bout with COVID, but hopefully the audience will bear with us because we've got a great guest today.

1:05.1

Congressman Frank Wolfe has been in Congress for 30-something years.

1:09.6

He has been a consistent voice for religious liberty

1:13.1

and freedom and human rights in China. And we're going to talk about a very bold declaration

1:18.0

that he was involved in putting forward, which is calling for a ban on all lobbying by

1:25.8

former members of Congress for Chinese companies. Yeah, I think we have to put this into an important context. I'm very excited to talk to Congressman Wolf today, and I think everyone that's listening to this podcast will, at the end of this, like, wow, that guy's legit. And we learned a lot of stuff because just in a little bit, I've spoken with him and a little bit of research I've done about him. I already have learned a lot of stuff.

1:44.8

This is the guy who's been calling, he's been basically, he's had China's number for 25 years. He's been trying to revoke their most favorite nation status because of their track record of human rights abuses. And so this U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has a new report out in which those human rights abuses and I think the

2:01.9

ways in which they restrict religious freedoms are exposed in a way unlike they have been before.

2:06.3

And your point would be, yes, so China's track record on human rights, China's track record on

2:10.5

international freedoms is bad.

2:12.5

And that's one of the reasons why anybody that then represents their commercial interest in the halls of power in

2:19.3

Washington, D.C., that should be a no-no.

2:21.6

That's exactly right, and that's the point that Congressman Wolfe has taken.

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