Benjamin L. Cardin: “Thank you, Chairman Carper, for convening this hearing.”

Senator Cardin, I thank you for your leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

I appreciate that, and I support everything you just said...

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.

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