Christopher Coons: “We cannot be a player on the world stage and keep our country safe and prosperous if we put ourselves on the sidelines.”

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.

I have been engaged in these issues a long time and gravely concerned to continue to hear about the steady loss of freedom around the world.

For so many years the Republic of Georgia has been a bright spot in the former Soviet Union.