I commend the Biden Administration for making it a U.S. policy to lead by the power of our example.

I am proud to stand with the human rights activists and defenders, fighting for this cause.

I have legislation also in the CROOK Act, and I'm glad you mentioned President Putin because in Russia, as we know, this kind of nonactor activity would not go on without the knowledge or the tacit approval of Russia.

The U.S. has to be in a leadership role in this regard, I think, to make progress.

Despite sanctions, we have seen an escalation of attacks--cyber attacks in our country, disrupting the food production chain, disrupting our energy chain, and I have great concerns about that expanding to healthcare institutions as well…

I agree. I think it's important to work with our allies in this regard, but not to wait for our allies to move on this.

We need to keep dirty money out of our politics, out of our decisionmaking, and it's good for us whether or not it has an effect on Putin.

And it's, therefore, my hope that with the information gleaned today, we can continue working together to raise our resilience and combat Putin's kleptocric system.

It must be the policy of the United States to continue opposing this geopolitical weapon and I urge this administration to immediately remove the waivers that spared Nord Stream 2 AG, the company, its CEO, and its corporate officers from…

Nord Stream 2 makes Germany a weaker ally for the United States and that means the United States have to carry even more of the water in European security.

It's really important that it's implemented properly, and I hope that members of your committee will be really holding the U.S. Treasury and FinCEN's feet to the fire.