Your task is daunting, and this subcommittee must both rigorously oversee your work, and ensure you have the support and resources you need to protect and advance our national security and our national values.
Coons emphasizes the importance of oversight and support for USAID's mission.
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When the U.S. leads other countries follow, and we see now, thanks to our efforts and thanks to Bill Browder's efforts, a dozen countries--two dozen countries have now passed Magnitsky type sanctions.
We need to provide more support for personnel, for operations, for outreach to support the Human Rights Defenders Fund.
Amazingly, this law is modeled after a Russian law, and considering what Russia has done to Georgia, that is unbelievable.
Since then, our confidence and our view, at least mine, and I think, having conversations with Senator Shaheen, have been disappointed.
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