Ben Cardin: “the budget request... significantly under-invests in democracy, and I think that sends a bad message about our values…”

section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may…

we need to consider how we deal with that.

I will withhold my request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland. ____________________

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.