Chris Smith actually said...

"In the entirety of this hearing today, not once did you mention that a kangaroo court in March convicted you of trying to influence or overthrow an election."

"My hope is, with the Belarus Democracy Act of 2023, that we will begin a pivot toward remembering."

"I cannot thank you enough. All of us feel this way. I chair the human rights committee of this Foreign Affairs Committee, and we watch everything that is going on in Belarus, and it is awful."

"the idea of people looking askance and having compassion fatigue or anything like that we need to double down rather than do business as usual."