Benjamin L. Cardin: “One of the advantages of our system of government, the separation of branches, that we can use the power of both…”

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

why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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