Benjamin L. Cardin: “If you use the rating system in 2010, it was 81.8; it has dropped to 66.3.”

I support that, but whether we will ever get to that point, my concern is it is going to be years down the road, and we are going to have another Moldova and another Georgia.

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

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.

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.