Benjamin L. Cardin: “Ellicott City had two 100 year floods within 20 months. So it has been really challenged on how to deal with the…”

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.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.