Benjamin L. Cardin: “I think it is absolutely essential that we be very clear that Maduro was not elected as president of Venezuela.”

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

We think the United States has to work with our partners in South America to make it clear that that was not an election where Maduro won.

we are going to do something about this.

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.