GOP lawmaker: Chinese officials are 'Adolf Hitlers of our day'

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) on Tuesday night said Chinese government officials are the "Adolf Hitlers of our day," and accused them of murdering Christians and people of other religions.

Rohrabacher made these remarks during debate on his amendment to the Energy and Water spending bill for 2013. He offered an amendment that would prevent $7.5 million from being spent by the Department of Energy on a Clean Energy Resource Center in China.

"I'm not opposed to all cooperation," Rohrabacher said after another member defended the project. "I'm opposed to cooperation with the Adolf Hitlers of our day, the people who are murdering Christians and other religious people as we speak. No, we should not be cooperating with that government in developing their technologies."

Just last month, Rohrabacher spoke on the floor for several minutes outlining various projects that the U.S. government funds in China, efforts he called "insane."

"We're borrowing money from China to give it to China, rather than having that money spent in the United States," he said in May. "They are happy to loan us the money, and they are happy that we are stupid enough to give it back to them in terms of aid and the types of programs."

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