WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- Sen. Mitch McConnell issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, made the following comments today at a State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee hearing on Russian abduction of Ukrainian children:
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for convening this hearing. And thank you all for being here today.
"I'd like to offer a particular welcome to you, Madam Ambassador. Getting a town that's often consumed by its own metaphorical political warfare to pay attention to the harsh realities of your country's real-life war for survival is a challenge - and I commend you for your work.
"Russia's systematic abduction of Ukrainian c...