Katrina Lantos Swett: “Congress has an extraordinary role, has had an extraordinary role historically in being the conscience of our nation…”

I commend your focus on the continued deterioration of religious freedom conditions in Iran, most notably for Christians and other religious minorities.

the progress of freedom requires courage, it requires people in extraordinarily difficult circumstances who are willing to put their safety, their well-being on the line.

I am a big believer in the school of linkage and not decoupling of human rights from our other essential foreign policy goals.

you are among the most valiant and courageous defenders of human rights in all their forms and for all people everywhere that our country has known