We have led the creation of global standards and binding legal frameworks to prevent and combat graft.
This committee, in its work on the State Department Authorization Act, moved in the direction to require the State Depar...
We want to go after the cases where they can have the most impact, not only on the individual, but on the circumstances ...
There is no required action by the administration to evaluate every human rights violator around the world, that is corr...
I know our committee is going to continue to be very aggressive.
They enable us to impose costs on individuals responsible for certain human rights abuses.
We need to use that to our advantage. You know, you cannot control what Congress does.
We are helping emerging democracies like Sri Lanka and Ukraine recover stolen assets.
We are the first country to criminalize bribery by our companies overseas.
I am particularly proud of the Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act that was passed by this committee and enacted i...
The United States has been the global leader in fighting modern-day slavery.
It would be, I think, legislative malpractice if we did not do what was appropriate, assuming that we know what to do.
Criminal justice is personal to me. I have seen the problems that plague the system through many lenses.
African Americans are incarcerated nearly six times the rate of whites.
I have seen them as a Congressman representing a district where finding balance between law and order and crime and puni...
It is not unusual when I go back to my district... for me to hear young men... say, Mr. Cummings, can you help me find a...
It does matter, because there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of them, and the number grows every single day...
What kind of justice system is that?
