Our message to these countries must be clear: Inclusive open societies contribute to better democracies.

Today, human rights, civil liberties, including freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and rule of law, are constantly under threat in many parts of the world.

This is an affront to the freedom of speech, the bedrock of democracy, and our values and principles as Americans.

It is important that the United States supports Israel by guaranteeing a robust security assistance package.

In the last decade, we have seen democracies around the world in retreat, including some in our own backyard.

I want to say thank you to Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel, for bringing these measures before us today.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 5274 offered by the Honorable Joaquin Castro, a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas.

I strongly disagree. And, you know, Anderson, this is a real betrayal of the American people and of the public trust for Republicans to close the investigation this way.

Absolutely. Let me just start with one fact. Roger Stone knowing ahead of time that WikiLeaks would dump e-mails belonging to Hillary Clinton. That's one example.

No. And I've heard that Adam Schiff, our ranking member, he would have been contacted first. I've heard he was not told, and I certainly have not heard anything.

I can't speak, of course, officially for the Democratic members, but my vote is that we issue our own report, and I think that -- I suspect that everybody will agree with that.

No. I believe our intelligence agencies. I think they got it right.