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

we are going to do something about this.

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

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

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.