House Rep. Seeks Travel Ban to Olympics
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WASHINGTON — A House Republican — chafing over President Bush’s plan to attend this year’s Beijing Olympics — wants to legally prohibit other American government officials from using federal money to go.
Rep. Frank Wolf, a Republican of Virginia, cited concerns about China’s record on human rights during a congressional hearing yesterday and said Mr. Bush’s presence would be akin to President Roosevelt sitting in the same stands as Adolf Hitler in 1936.
“Ronald Reagan would have never gone to the Olympics. I guarantee you that. Never gone,” Mr. Wolf said.
Mr. Wolf, a co-chairman of a congressional caucus on Sudan, blames China for not using its close ties with the Sudanese government to end the violence in Darfur. Mr. Wolf also charges that China has sold weapons to American enemies, jailed countless political prisoners, and tried to spy on America’s high-tech industry.
