Benjamin L. Cardin: “We are proud to recommend to this Committee, as we did to President Biden, the confirmation of Judge Maddox.”

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.

Freedom House is pleased to support the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act, led by Chairman Cardin.

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.