House Republican warns John Boehner not to lobby for China

By Joel Gehrke

Published July 26, 2018 6:00pm ET

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House Republican warns John Boehner not to lobby for China — In this Jan. 5, 2011 file photo, then-Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, who was elected House Speaker later that day during the 112th Congress, walks out of his home on Capitol Hill in Washington. | (Alex Brandon/AP)

Former House Speaker John Boehner shouldn’t lobby on behalf of China due to the Communist regime’s human rights abuses, a House Republican lawmaker said Thursday.

“Now we’ve got John Boehner, our former speaker, joining in the chorus of lobbyists for a dictatorship,” Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said while co-chairing a congressional hearing on Chinese human rights abuses.

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