Ben Cardin: “Facilitating democracy and representative government also serves to minimize human rights abuses.”

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

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

We are going to do something about this.

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…