Benjamin L. Cardin: “What you have done to strengthen the transatlantic partnership is incredible.”

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

I think it is absolutely essential that we be very clear that Maduro was not elected as president of Venezuela.

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

To be true to our founding principles we need to support those people trying to defend human rights, those rights endowed to us by our Creator.