Lukashenko, I believe, is guilty of war crimes, and he needs to be held to account by the ICC and any other court that will take this up.

I hope to build on that support in this Congress.

The fulfillment of these aspirations is critical to ensuring the continued strength of Belarusian sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Most egregiously, Lukashenko has made Belarus an active participant in crimes against abducted Ukrainian children.

I am circulating to the other members the Belarus Democracy Act and Human Rights and Sovereignty Act of 2023, which we hope to move as quickly as we can.

You are an inspiration, obviously, for the people of Belarus and then, hey, ultimately, an inspiration for the people of Russia itself that they, too, under the repression of war criminal Putin, 1 day there will be a free and democratic…

It is important that I am here today in this first hearing because it is a topic that means so much to me: democracy, democracy and the preservation of it.

The Biden Administration needs to fix this immediately.

The U.S. must continue to support the democratic development of Belarus.

I especially want to recognize that women have played a leading role in Belarusian, the democratic movement that has grown.

She has earned this position by showing enormous courage and principle, and many of us and I believe it, beyond any reasonable doubt, she won the election.

Alexander Lukashenko is an illegitimate dictator. The fraudulent 2020 Belarusian Presidential election made a mockery of democracy.

when lawmakers like this are so far out of touch with what women need, we see states pushing back

most everyone up here on the other side of the aisle has endorsed a person that has been found liable for sexual abuse of women to be our President of the United States

this body has become completely unserious

I think it is important that, as we talk about these programs that I think are pushing us into the right kind of collaboration, co-stewardship, that they also take resources, right?

I agree, resources are needed for protection of areas.

Now, to my second point, the issue related to Mr. Santos. I voted ``present'' today. Let's look at what the vote count was. The vote count was 311 ``yeas,'' 114 ``nays,'' 2 ``present,'' and 8 persons not voting. I am proud of my vote. I am…