Benjamin L. Cardin: “I think you need one.”

We think the United States has to work with our partners in South America to make it clear that that was not an election where Maduro won.

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.

Which Russia is trying to make sure does not happen.

I think it is absolutely essential that we be very clear that Maduro was not elected as president of Venezuela.