It is also compromising the ability of the nation in which that person comes from, from having the type of participation...
Thank you again. With that, the hearing will stand adjourned.
More is needed. In the coming days I will be introducing the International Freedom Protection Act.
This is just an open invitation to all three of you.
I think of Sergei Magnitsky and bringing that cause here to the United States by Bill Browder.
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...
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...
It really does present a damning situation where transnational repression is really eating at the core of our own democr...
Please give us that because I would welcome provisions that could help us deal with this current challenge.
It denies us the opportunity to hear different views and it compromises our own country.
I urge the Committee's support for the bipartisan AGRITOURISM Act and its inclusion in next year's farm bill.
As Abraham Lincoln said, without public sentiment, you can do nothing; with it, you can do anything.
Currently, the national debt--we all know this--is at a historic high at $34 trillion.
