Benjamin L. Cardin: “As President Biden has said frequently, our foreign policy will be wrapped within our values.”

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.

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?

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.