in 1948, the world came together to adopt the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights to declare with one voice that every single person on Earth is ``born free and equal in dignity and rights.'' They declared that ``no one shall be…

a powerful tornado stretched across 200 miles, never leaving the land, and perhaps the longest streak of tornado destruction we have ever seen in the United States of America. And my heart goes out to all those families who have been so…

Why don't we simultaneously say we are going to step up support for the Federal efforts when we are doing this bill?

If we invest in recovery, we will get species off of the endangered species list.

I do think this bill requires a better balance between those responsibilities.

the most direct path to reducing regulation of endangered species is to get them recovered and get them off of the endangered species list.

I think that we have heard a lot of reference to kind of reduce reliance on regulation.

This hearing will examine the ways the Chinese government and Communist Party attempt to use economic coercion for political aims.

Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China entitled 'How China Uses Economic Coercion to Silence Critics and Achieve Its Political Aims Globally' will come to order.

How China uses economic coercion to silence critics and achieve its political aims globally.

people always give assurances until the moment a military coup starts or the counting is suspended and not resumed.

There is an opportunity here, an incredible opportunity, that the United States has to seize it with both hands and to send a powerful message that no military coup will be tolerated.

Thank you for convening this hearing on the Chinese government's use of technology and digital platforms to expand and export its repressive policies.

In China and around the globe, we are seeing that the same technology that drives the global economy... can also be used for repression.

Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China entitled 'Techno-Authoritarianism: Platform for Repression in China and Abroad,' will come to order.

Opening Statement of Hon. Jeff Merkley, a U.S. Senator from Oregon; Chair, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

the International Olympic Committee has placed the world's athletes in the untenable position of making them essentially complicit in China's effort to use the Olympics to paint a very beautiful vision of their country and to basically…

Without proper guardrails to protect privacy and basic human rights, technology can control populations, trample freedom of expression, and undermine institutions of democratic governance.

We are seeing that the same technology that drives the global economy... can also be used for repression.

Good morning. Today's hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on 'Techno-Authoritarianism: Platform for Repression in China and Abroad' will come to order.

not too long ago, we had a vote on whether or not to start a debate on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And the majority said, yes, start the debate. Then why aren't we here in that debate? Well, the simple answer is we have a process…

When our Committee went down to Georgia, Senator Klobuchar and I listened to stories about people waiting, I think five hours was one testimony.

shouldn't we talk a lot about the fraud conducted on Election Day?

I mean, that is really the type of fraud I am talking about and that has a huge impact.

It is absolutely essential that for a democratic republic to function well, the foundation has to function well.