Benjamin L. Cardin: “United States officials doing the people's business must set an example by maintaining the highest degree of integrity.”

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.

Iran's threat is real.

I support that, but whether we will ever get to that point, my concern is it is going to be years down the road, and we are going to have another Moldova and another Georgia.