“The idea that the Parliament could protect any of its members from prosecution is completely foreign to us in the United States. When a prosecutor decides to take a case against a member of Congress, there is nothing that the U.S. Congress can do to protect that individual, and that’s right. And, as a message that we convey, we see progress being made and we want to support that progress, but this discussion about continuing to allow the Parliament to protect itself by voting on its own immunity is just a debate that, I am afraid, would be laughable in the United States,” Murphy pointed out.
Senators John McCain, Ron Johnson and Christopher Murphy, members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, were asked to convey a message to the Romanian Parliament, considering that its members voted against lifting the immunity of several lawmakers after the recent visit of United States Vice-President Joe Biden to Bucharest.
Senator Ron Johnson, in turn, said businesspeople would be interested in investing in Romania only if they are confident the laws are enforced correctly.