On the recordApril 19, 2021
Madam Speaker, let me just thank again Representative Gerry Connolly for this critical bill holding Saudi Arabia accountable for its brutal suppression of dissidents. Let me also say this helps ensure that the Saudi diplomatic facilities are not used as a staging ground for their efforts to suppress dissidents. It is crucial that the United States stand strongly in defense of basic rights and freedom of expression and not allow U.S. weapons or support to be used by Saudi Arabia for the purposes of intimidating, abusing, or even killing peaceful Saudi dissidents. I hope my colleagues will join me. With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
