Jim Risch actually said...

"I cannot imagine that, why the Administration is looking at this person for this."

"Last year on August 9, a Belarusian election was stolen from its people."

"I am deeply troubled by Russia's willingness to facilitate the regime's repressions and its attempts through the last months to normalize Lukashenka's extensive human rights abuses."

"There can be no normalization. It is as if the regime believes a page will be turned and they can go back to building relations with the West."