I want to thank both of our nominees and their families. This is a tough time to serve in government.
The principles of Helsinki are freedom, and peaceful and just democratic societies.
I would like to thank Chairman Hastings and Co-Chairman Wicker for their leadership of the Helsinki Commission.
While so many Americans enjoy the freedom to speak and write freely--and critically--about their government, elsewhere in the world millions...
We cannot allow autocratic regimes to manipulate the U.S. justice system to carry out reprisals against their political opponents.
INTERPOL abuse will not stop until it is punished.
The most blatant example was Jamal Khashoggi's murder in Turkey.
Enforcing the Magnitsky sanctions. We're now 10 years from when Sergei Magnitsky was murdered.
As we know, the principles of Helsinki are freedom, and peaceful and just democratic societies.
This hearing couldn't be more appropriately chaired by Senator Wicker, 'Tools for Transnational Repression.'
What he said about Baltimore is totally unacceptable from anyone but the president of the United States, that's outrageous.