Benjamin L. Cardin: “The one area that I hope we will continue to work on is returning citizens, criminal justice-impacted individuals.”

I think it is absolutely essential that we be very clear that Maduro was not elected as president of Venezuela.

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.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

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.