Benjamin L. Cardin: “Senator Van Hollen, and I, thank you very much for scheduling this hearing for Judge Matthew Maddox.”

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

Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

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.