Benjamin L. Cardin: “I want to follow up on Chairman Menendez's last point first and that is accountability.”

I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

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.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.

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.