Benjamin L. Cardin: “We're determined to exercise our roles as legislators in that regard and we've already started that process.”

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.

we are going to do something about this.

I appreciate that, and I support everything you just said...

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