James E. Risch: “We should not let that happen. We should be the leaders on this and I hope we will be.”

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

Oh, we can be fired.

The tool of choice for authoritarians these days is anti-nongovernmental organization laws, also referred to as foreign agent laws.

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.