Benjamin L. Cardin: “We are extremely concerned about what we hear from small businesses in regard to compliance with the tax laws of our…”

Which Russia is trying to make sure does not happen.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.