Benjamin L. Cardin: “I see Russia and China just putting so much resources into our hemisphere, every time we travel, we see it.”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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

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.

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.