There is no question that the August 9th election in Belarus was flawed and corrupt.

Thank you, everybody, for doing this and for the great testimony.

If we are going to allow them to broadcast in this country because we do have a First Amendment, there has to be a certain amount of reciprocity.

Are we getting equal access in broadcast coverage to Belarus and Russia with organizations like VOA and RFERL as we give RT and Sputnik in this country?

Isn't that something we can do diplomatically and say, you know, we'll allow this, for Russia to come into our country with RT but you got to have the same reciprocity.

Since the final days of the cold war, the United States and its trans-Atlantic allies and partners have been motivated by the vision of Europe, whole and free.

the best thing I think we can do as a Nation is economic pressure.

During my time in Congress, my colleagues and I have repeatedly striven to hold the government of Myanmar accountable for its ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.

I look forward to this hearing--from hearing from each of you in how the United States can better save this population and hold the government of Myanmar accountable for its abuses.

American tax dollars should not fund any kind of foreign assistance going to regimes responsible for disenfranchising over a billion of its own people.

Conditions for the Rohingya worsened to a horrific extent several years ago when the region erupted into full-scale, State-sponsored violence, killing tens of thousands and forcing over 700,000 to flee to neighboring countries like…

We need to come together with policies that we can pass in a bipartisan manner.

we as a Nation need to invoke these other nations.

Let's be clear: what is happening in Myanmar toward the Rohingya is State-sponsored genocide, period.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I appreciate all the witnesses' testimony.

These attacks are tawdry. I mean, they are just cheap shots that aren't going to solve any problems.

I stand before you this morning to address the strife I injected into the already-contentious Congress. I have worked with many Members in this Chamber over the past four terms, Members on both sides of the aisle,--and each of you know…

By god, it is time that we raise up our vision and we look down the road of where America is going.

It is critical that it has equity authority.

That was a team effort. That was this body. That was Congress working the way it is supposed to on a bilateral, bipartisan manner.

We need to continue that because we are focusing on what is best for America, and if we do that things work out a lot better instead of dividing.

I would like to congratulate the University of Florida and its outstanding faculty and staff on their receipt of the George W. Bush Institute of Innovation Award. A team of economists and business development experts ranked the University…

We have given them over 500, the way I understand it.

The Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping have blatantly disregarded the agreement between Great Britain and China.

There is going to be a food shortage that I do not think we have seen on this level in a very long time.