Benjamin L. Cardin: “The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.”

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

Senator Cardin, I thank you for your leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

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

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.