Madam President. The ACTING PRESDIENT pro tempore. The Senator from Arkansas. ____________________

Madam President, I speak in support of the nomination of Dominic Lanza to be a district judge for the District of Arizona. Dominic is my old friend and law school classmate and, maybe most importantly, intramural basketball teammate, when…

I want to read something into the record. I think it is very important.

They have taken some steps beyond what happened under the Soviet regimes, but most of the techniques remain the same: assassination, disinformation, subterfuge, so on and so forth.

Ambassador McFaul, you said, if I heard you correctly, that you do not see much hope for a change in Russian behavior as long Vladimir Putin remains President.

I think both of you, and your companies, should wear it as a badge of honor that the Chinese Communist Party has blocked you from operating in their country.

I would urge both of your companies, or any company like yours, to consider whether or not they want to be partners in the fight against our adversaries in places like Beijing and Moscow and Pyongyang and Tehran, as opposed to evenhanded…

I want to commend both of you for your appearance here today, for what was no doubt going to be some uncomfortable questions.

Could you explain why you ceased that cooperation then, or that relationship with, Russia Today and other Russian intelligence proxies?

And that's why you've decided to cease cooperation with the Russian government or proxies like Russia Today?

Did you make that decision personally?