Benjamin L. Cardin: “Thank you, Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Graham, Senator Kennedy, Members of the Committee.”

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

That is why virtually every international aid organization that has operated worldwide for decades says they have never experienced a worse manmade humanitarian disaster than that in Gaza.

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

Iran's threat is real.