Benjamin L. Cardin: “The reform of the OPTN process will save lives. We lose 17 Americans every day awaiting an organ transplant.”

Freedom House is pleased to support the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act, led by Chairman Cardin.

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.

I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.