if we do not suprá@@@@@@@ u&@ r >> we lose all moral authority to speak about like any place in the world. so, here we are, in front of the camera, a building symbolic of freedom. about american independence and our constitution. and solidarity with those who use our words and model democracy and liberty. having those aspirations, the people carrying those aspirations 20 years later, the spirit is still alive. in observance of to yemen's

where, over 150,000 people turned out last night. . . 150,000 people, the biggest crowd since the one-year anniversary. so i know that the long arm of the chinese government will be reaching out to the media all over the world to suppress reporting on what is happening in china and also restricting communication from china through the internet and the rest. the fact is, here we are at the capitol. there they were in hong kong. a drumbeat of activity across the world. an echo of the voices of our heroes of gm and -- tiananmen. we want a record of what happened, and we will continue to work for more openness, for improvement of human rights in china and tibet. and again, i want to salute --

he just laughed. he came out of -- he just laughed. -- just left. he is in macao. i see. i saw him -- i saw him in hong kong while was there. we have all been working on this for very long time. there are some new prisoners that just came out of china to account for the treatment they received. this list on my poster is a list of heroes. you are, too. thank you for your courage to turn out here today to stand into the capital, to hold us accountable to our own values and to continue to work together to remember the massacre, to get a public accounting of it, and can i say

just one thing in closing? it was shocking to me. on the way there, perhaps you saw the frontline documentary on tiananmen square. this icon is seared in the minds of people throughout the world. and they had, in this documentary that they showed it to students at beijing university, and those students had no idea what this was a photo of. they said, what is that? is it art? did you put that together? this is an indication of how the chinese government has suppressed what happened on june 4 in the days leading up to it. this was actually a couple of days after june 4. our work is large.

it is work that many of us have been involved in for 20 years. in 1991, i stood on the square, remembering those who gave and sacrificed so much. i wear white today to signal to the families sympathy for what they have lost. i did that in 1991 as a member, to express my views and the views of my constituents. it was a bipartisan group of us on the square that day, democrats and republicans. 18 years later, a speaker of the house, i have the opportunity to sit across from the president of china, the premier of china, the chairman of the people's throat -- the people's congress, and to express to them the bipartisan concern in the congress of the united states about china's human rights record, both in china and tibet.

whenever our roles at whatever stage of our involvement, we have to use everything at our disposal so that they know that we have not forgotten, and that we will not rest until there is freedom of speech and expression and assembly and openness in china. thank you all very much for coming out today. thank you for what you have done. thank you for what you're going to do. thank you for giving me the privilege of being associated with this very important historic movement for freedom in the world. thank you all very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]