04/25/2012
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"I strongly support the bill before us today that would impose sanctions on individuals that have contributed in any way to the violent crackdown."
"Human rights matter. They matter to us and they matter to us wherever those rights are trampled anywhere in the world."
"This violence and repression has gone on way too long. And it is happening right here in our own hemisphere."
"Rightfully, the United States has been in the forefront taking aggressive economic action to dissuade the Russian Government from any further meddling in the domestic events of another country."