I would just ask that if risk factors become known that there be transparency and that we, that the public be made aware as soon as possible...
I would point out that coal ash that are put in landfills, we are concerned about.
I would just urge you to be as transparent as you possibly can in the review of how United States involvement in Iraq is being--how the fund...
By practically any measure, Belarus under Lukashenka is truly the last dictatorship in Europe.
I urge Congress to take up and pass the latest version of the Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2011.
We, in the United States, have supported the people of Belarus through the dark period of Lukashenko's rule and they know that and they welc...
We will never know how the people of Belarus actually voted on December 19, though surely it was not the 80 percent for Mr. Lukashenko that ...
The government's reaction was brutal, and its subsequent actions can only be interpreted as a campaign to crush the opposition.
We should be thanking him and all that are with him for literally risking their lives.
But what happened the night after the election is what brought us to the point where we are today.
I would strongly urge the passage of the latest iteration of the Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2011.
We should be pressing for the release of the several dozen political prisoners still in jail.
I would like to point out that under Assistant Secretary Gordon's direction, five men and women--count them--five diplomats--led by Mr. Scan...
The government did allow the monitoring mission and allowed nine opposition candidates to register and to run against President Lukashenka.
I commend Secretary Clinton for meeting with a group of Belarusians and Belarusian-Americans several weeks ago.
The enemy is Lukashenko, and he is the enemy not just to the European Union and the United States.
Tough talk is not good enough. There have to be major consequences for what happened.
Neutrality in the case of Belarusian politics is an enemy of freedom and we cannot continue.
