Ben Cardin actually said...

"We believe we need the flexibility to determine, in consultation with Congress, when financial and other sanctions will do more good than harm."

"There is no required action by the administration to evaluate every human rights violator around the world, that is correct."

"We have led the creation of global standards and binding legal frameworks to prevent and combat graft."

"We can do it. We have done it successfully; at times, when the administration did not want us to do it."