Ben Cardin actually said...

Do you commit, if confirmed, that our mission in country will always be a safe haven for those trying to exercise their basic human rights?

Cardin asks about ensuring U.S. missions support human rights advocates.

10/04/2021

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We attempted at one time--the Chairman was active on this--to look at 123 agreements and say, look, we understand there is world technology.

So we really could, I think, develop international gold standards and not get into just the lowest common denominator.

The challenge is you run into countries--and I will mention again Pakistan that has an internal need.

I think that is a huge diplomatic effort that we could do.