Katrina Lantos Swett: “you are among the most valiant and courageous defenders of human rights in all their forms and for all people everywhere…”

I think that it is a very flimsy excuse for not funding technologies that enable vast numbers of people to access the internet freely.

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

we cannot entirely protect, we can't basically protect people in China or in any other country where they are being brutally repressed.

Congress has an extraordinary role, has had an extraordinary role historically in being the conscience of our nation when it comes to human rights.