It denies us the opportunity to hear different views and it compromises our own country.
It is also compromising the ability of the nation in which that person comes from, from having the type of participation...
Thank you again. With that, the hearing will stand adjourned.
I led the Transnational Repression Accountability and Prevention Act to increase transparency about these regimes' abuse...
Please give us that because I would welcome provisions that could help us deal with this current challenge.
That is a direct attack at our system of government and it compromises our ability to get objective information.
It is one thing to deal with this behavior when it comes from a nation that we would sort of put into the adversary camp...
More is needed. In the coming days I will be introducing the International Freedom Protection Act.
Both of course, Sergei Magnitsky was arrested, tortured, and killed and Bill Browder is under indictment in Russia.
It is time for us to get creative, too.
It really does present a damning situation where transnational repression is really eating at the core of our own democr...