Ben Cardin

With Congress working with the administration we should be able to advance the process.

Human Rights Watch says that the--in its 2021 report that the Trump administration was a disaster for the protection of human rights.

We know that we need to maintain America's leadership in regards to that relationship because Israel has been marginalized in so many places and so many organizations around the world.

President-elect Biden observed that democracy is under more pressure than any time since the 1930s.

Will you work with us so that we can have a very strong position in making it clear that every country can do better with fighting corruption, that there are certain standards that need to be met?

I would also urge you to be as aggressive as you can with the budget director as to resources being devoted to democracy.

I want to ask you some questions in regards to a troubling trend we have seen globally on the decline of democracy.

Corruption exists in every country, but unless you have a plan to deal with corruption, it becomes very corrosive to the underlying fabric of any democratic society.

I thank the Senator for her assurances and ask her, knowing that the future of this bill's fate in this Congress is uncertain, if she will agree that she will work with my colleague from Maryland and me to fix these provisions to our…

Will the Senator from Washington confirm that it is not the committee's intention or desire to force NASA to establish a university affiliated research center or to see either sections 818 or section 819 enacted without sufficient peer…

The Commerce Committee substitute, as proposed, contains three provisions that are cause for concern for my colleague and me. I would yield to my colleague from Maryland, a distinguished member of the Appropriations Subcommittee that funds…

Will the Senator from Washington and the Distinguished Ranking Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee yield for a colloquy on some issues related to the committee's substitute for S. 2800?

I am just trying to figure out what I am supposed to be signing as ranking member of the committee. If I understand--because the Senator had mentioned problems with the 60 percent----

Reserving the right to object. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Maryland.

The principles of Helsinki are freedom, and peaceful and just democratic societies.

While so many Americans enjoy the freedom to speak and write freely--and critically--about their government, elsewhere in the world millions live in conditions under which voicing any public opposition to political forces is a…

We cannot allow autocratic regimes to manipulate the U.S. justice system to carry out reprisals against their political opponents.

I would like to thank Chairman Hastings and Co-Chairman Wicker for their leadership of the Helsinki Commission.

INTERPOL abuse will not stop until it is punished.

The most blatant example was Jamal Khashoggi's murder in Turkey.

Enforcing the Magnitsky sanctions. We're now 10 years from when Sergei Magnitsky was murdered.

As we know, the principles of Helsinki are freedom, and peaceful and just democratic societies.

This hearing couldn't be more appropriately chaired by Senator Wicker, 'Tools for Transnational Repression.'

What he said about Baltimore is totally unacceptable from anyone but the president of the United States, that's outrageous.

I think it's an effort to distract. I also think as Senator Van Hollen said, it's a pattern which the president appeals to the worst of America and to racism in an effort to try to bolster his base. It's unacceptable from anyone but…