WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joined U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) on bipartisan legislation to strengthen the U.S. response to the situation in Burma, including by imposing sanctions on the repressive military junta that took power in a 2021 coup and reversed a decade of democratic and economic gains. The junta, members of which committed (https://2021-2025.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-the-united-states-holocaust-memorial-museum/) genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya ...