James E. Risch: “We need another more substantive strategy for dealing with it.”

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

I think it is incumbent upon us as we go forward to do that, and I commit to you that we will continue to pursue that.

Autocrats fear the loss of control, and this ensures opposing ideas are neither seen nor heard.

As we celebrate 250 years of Independence, we must remember the sacrifices made to secure it and recommit ourselves to the ideals that have defined our great nation for centuries: freedom, faith, hard work, equality, and the Rule of Law.