Benjamin L. Cardin: “In many respects there are less barriers to entrepreneurship than there is to employment...”

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

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

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.