Benjamin L. Cardin: “We imposed sanctions on the individual.”

To be true to our founding principles we need to support those people trying to defend human rights, those rights endowed to us by our Creator.

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.

Senator Cardin, I thank you for your leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

That is why virtually every international aid organization that has operated worldwide for decades says they have never experienced a worse manmade humanitarian disaster than that in Gaza.