James E. Risch: “This means the Department cannot deliver on its ambitious agenda to open new embassies in places where we are directly…”

For whatever reason the second branch of government is reluctant to anger other countries or look at the wrath of other countries, and that is just flat wrong.

When I did REPO, which you referred to, my biggest enemy was not Democrats. My biggest enemy was the Administration.

I agree with that, and one of the other ones we really needed to turn the screw on is on the Russians.

What is happening there today, as we speak, on the ground is unacceptable what the current authorities are doing against the people of Georgia.