Benjamin L. Cardin: “Will you provide this committee with where you are on reaching that 70 percent goal and the challenges that you are…”

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

To be true to our founding principles we need to support those people trying to defend human rights, those rights endowed to us by our Creator.

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.