Both of course, Sergei Magnitsky was arrested, tortured, and killed and Bill Browder is under indictment in Russia.

I join my friend and colleague from Tennessee who, in addition to being on the Foreign Relations Committee, has background in the private sector as an economic development official for the State of Tennessee and also as a diplomat in his…

More is needed. In the coming days I will be introducing the International Freedom Protection Act.

That is a direct attack at our system of government and it compromises our ability to get objective information.

Thank you again. With that, the hearing will stand adjourned.

Please give us that because I would welcome provisions that could help us deal with this current challenge.

I think of Kara-Murza who is currently in prison in Russia.

It really does present a damning situation where transnational repression is really eating at the core of our own democracy.

We often say we are the oldest democracy in the world and India is the largest democracy in the world. This is not the behavior of a respectable democracy.

It is also compromising the ability of the nation in which that person comes from, from having the type of participation that is necessary for that country's growth.

I led the Transnational Repression Accountability and Prevention Act to increase transparency about these regimes' abuse of Interpol red notices.

Foiled Plot To Kill U.S. Sikh is Linked to Murder of Canadian Activist

Foiled Plot To Kill U.S. Sikh is Linked to Murder of Canadian Activist

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if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 3:08 p.m., adjourned until Monday, December 4, 2023, at 3 p.m. ____________________

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I will start by thanking my colleagues, especially Senator Murray, for organizing this effort and also for her life of being a passionate advocate for kids, especially as an early childhood educator. And I will start in another way that is…

My hope would be that as we are having those discussions with the U.K., we also keep Australia in mind

if we are going to make this pillar two part of AUKUS successful, the greatest alignment between the U.S. and U.K. and Australia on matters like AI regulation would be helpful

You anticipated my line of questioning because what I want to talk about is something that is at the intersection of the Foreign Relations Committee jurisdiction and the Armed Services Committee jurisdiction and that is the AUKUS…

You anticipated my line of questioning because what I want to talk about is something that is at the intersection of the Foreign Relations Committee jurisdiction and the Armed Services Committee jurisdiction and that is the AUKUS…