Benjamin L. Cardin: “I strongly support the reauthorization of EDA; 2004 has been too long.”

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

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.

We are going to do something about this.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.