I come to the floor today to speak about an emerging crisis in our hemisphere in the nation of Venezuela. It has been covered extensively in the press. I wanted to come today with an update and a suggestion, a request of the administration…

Nothing in this bill is designed to punish them, stigmatize them, or in any way hurt them.

I will watch it on TV.

Thank you very much for this, to the Ranking Member and to all the Members of the Committee.

Thank you, Madam Chair, for holding this important hearing.

I have come to the floor today as part of my office's Expression NOT Oppression initiative, which highlights human rights abuses around the world and the plight of individuals imprisoned or oppressed for simply exercising their God-given…

To each of our witnesses, I would just ask: would any of you be comfortable with Kaspersky Lab's software on your computers?

the purpose of this law is not simply to punish people.

armed civilian groups or colectivos, these militias in the street, have been armed by the regime for purposes of defending, for lack of a better term, the regime from protesters.

I rise to speak briefly this afternoon on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela. There is a growing interest in the matter here among my colleagues in the Senate and the White House and other places--certainly, in the press--and thankfully so…

They could potentially flip a switch and give the signal for groups they have implanted in the region and throughout the world to attack us.

Part of their statecraft is asymmetry--in essence, the asymmetrical ability to attack the United States.