Benjamin L. Cardin: “It took me many years to be able to get, as a principal trade objective, good governance and anti-corruption issues.”

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.

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.

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

We imposed sanctions on the individual.