Richard Blumenthal

If it wants to engage with the United States commercially, it must be subject to United States law and oversight.

While we have laws that require the review of foreign investments that pose direct threats to our national security, and we require agents of foreign governments to file disclosures, our current laws largely leave commercial investment by…

At a time when authoritarian regimes are gaining power and people around the world are losing freedom, it is important that we stay vigilant against anyone who wants to protect, promote, or normalize autocracy.

But we also ought to demand transparency so that we can understand the strings that are attached to certain investments, especially those that come directly from authoritarian regimes.

The families of 9/11 victims need and deserve accountability, and they are entitled to answers.

The Saudi government must take responsibility for its role, and our own government must be transparent about what actually happened.

This inquiry is about much more than the game of golf. It is about more than sports.

Saudi Arabia remains a brutal regime, utterly resistant to criticism, devoid of any right of free speech.

This meeting of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) is called to order.

Thank you to my partner in this effort, Ranking Member Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.

We have been working through the Judiciary committee... on Privacy, Technology and Law.

The chairman's bill was reported out of the Commerce committee in July, and disclosure is also an essential part of the framework that Senator Hawley and I have advanced.

Transparency in our process is as important as transparency in the disclosure of how algorithms work.

A Senate subcommittee chaired by Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal has just launched a formal inquiry.

We need to train those workers. We need to provide education.

I think that that answer is very insightful and raises other questions.

They're not entitled to the protection of our Bill of Rights when they are seeking to destroy those rights.

A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth gets out of bed.

I'm very focused on election interference because elections are upon us.

I think anything to aid in our education and enlightenment--'our,' being Senators--is a good thing.

I take very much to heart your imploring us against half measures.

We cannot make those mistakes again.

What I want to make sure is, is that actually benefits American people.

Just because we have rules that prohibit discrimination in the workplace doesn't mean that we don't need rules that prohibit discrimination in voting.

I have been grateful, especially to my partner in this effort, Senator Hawley, the Ranking Member.