This is just an open invitation to all three of you.
It really does present a damning situation where transnational repression is really eating at the core of our own democracy.
More is needed. In the coming days I will be introducing the International Freedom Protection Act.
It is one thing to deal with this behavior when it comes from a nation that we would sort of put into the adversary camp--China, Iran, other...
I think of Sergei Magnitsky and bringing that cause here to the United States by Bill Browder.
It is also compromising the ability of the nation in which that person comes from, from having the type of participation that is necessary f...
It is time for us to get creative, too.
I think of Kara-Murza who is currently in prison in Russia.
It denies us the opportunity to hear different views and it compromises our own country.
That is a direct attack at our system of government and it compromises our ability to get objective information.
That is why I wrote to the President of Tajikistan expressing my concerns regarding his treatment of political opponents.
I urge the Committee's support for the bipartisan AGRITOURISM Act and its inclusion in next year's farm bill.
The budget process has been broken for a long time and the American people are suffering the consequences.
I encourage the Committee to protect the much needed adjustments that were made to the Thrifty Food Plan.
I would like the Committee to include a notable bipartisan bill that I introduced with Rep. Juan Ciscomani, H.R. 5242.
I am proud to be a cosponsor of H.R. 205, the SNAP Theft Protection Act.
Commodity crops accounted for 94 percent of crop insurance policies, whereas the whole farm revenue policies that service smaller diversifie...