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According to Congressional Quarterly, " In 2002, Sanchez voted against reviving fast-track procedures for congressional action on trade deals.

And, coming from a district with one of the largest ethnically Vietnamese communities outside Vietnam, she voted against a trade agreement with Vietnam, saying that political and human rights conditions in that country needed improvement.

Her outspokenness led the Hanoi regime to refuse to allow her into the country late in 2004 when she applied for an entry visa to meet with dissidents.

" By April 2006, Sanchez had been denied a visa to visit Vietnam four times by the country's officials.

In honor of International Human Rights Day, she joined a bipartisan group of 11 House Members that issued a letter to Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung calling for the release of two U. S. citizens arrested by the Government of Vietnam.