Howard Berman: “This amendment would simply eliminate the specific reference to Russia and would exempt the Bushehr reactor, so long as…”

This report and this hearing are just the beginning of our efforts to provide the American people with answers as to why this tragedy occurred and how to protect our diplomats and other personnel serving overseas from unnecessary risks in…

I think this is a very historic piece of bipartisan legislation. Just as Jackson-Vanik became a tool to deal with one aspect of a horrible set of policies by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we now, using the Magnitsky legislation…

But those visas would only allow workers to remain here for a period of 18 months even if they have been here for decades and have spouses and children in the United States.

I hope this current situation follows a similar pattern.