I believe when Clinton delinked MFN from human rights on May 26, 1994, that was a catastrophic game-changer for the dictatorship.

Our bill, it has been languishing in the Senate for months, would, in addition to sanctioning those who are, with knowledge, procuring these organs, it would do a serious work within the U.S. Department of State to investigate and to expose.

There are very serious concerns with how 501(c) tax-exempt organizations may be used not only to influence American politics and our elections, but to do so with foreign sources of funding.

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

What can we do to raise the issue of the churches and the people of faith, the pastors, the clergymen, that are being incarcerated?

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.

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.

I am very concerned and I am interested in hearing what you have to say on this.

Thank you for that tremendous testimony, for that very important prescriptive list of actions that we, the House, Senate, and the executive branch need to undertake.

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.

I deeply appreciate Chairwoman Salazar's incisive questioning and her passion and her unbelievably deep commitment to fundamental human rights