This committee, in its work on the State Department Authorization Act, moved in the direction to require the State Depar...
We are the first country to criminalize bribery by our companies overseas.
There is a scheduled, not yet date-specific, fall meeting, at the ministerial level, with Egypt, and we are weighing in ...
We need to use that to our advantage. You know, you cannot control what Congress does.
We want to go after the cases where they can have the most impact, not only on the individual, but on the circumstances ...
I am particularly proud of the Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act that was passed by this committee and enacted i...
We believe we need the flexibility to determine, in consultation with Congress, when financial and other sanctions will ...
We can do it. We have done it successfully; at times, when the administration did not want us to do it.
We have led the creation of global standards and binding legal frameworks to prevent and combat graft.
We are helping emerging democracies like Sri Lanka and Ukraine recover stolen assets.
The United States has been the global leader in fighting modern-day slavery.
It does matter, because there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of them, and the number grows every single day...
Criminal justice is personal to me. I have seen the problems that plague the system through many lenses.
It would be, I think, legislative malpractice if we did not do what was appropriate, assuming that we know what to do.
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...
I have seen them as a Congressman representing a district where finding balance between law and order and crime and puni...
What kind of justice system is that?
African Americans are incarcerated nearly six times the rate of whites.
