Benjamin L. Cardin: “Thank you for your willingness to serve our country in this critically important position.”

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

why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

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.

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.