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"They refused visits from his wife and mother and telephone calls with his children. They denied him medical care trying to get him to recant his testimony. Most people would have given in, but Sergei Magnitsky refused," said U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke on the Senate floor in opposition to Senator Rand Paul’s Joint Resolution of Disapproval (JRD) on Ukraine loan forgiveness.

"We've heard from our own State Department people, as recently as today, that the challenges of humanitarian assistance is made so much difficult because of Hamas using it as a weapon to deny its own people humanitarian help -- making it extremely difficult for the deliveries to take place," said U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) chair, Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Monday, November 18 at 6:00PM, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin and Glenn Ivey will hold a media availability in the U.S. Capitol with Representative-elect April McClain Delaney, Representative-elect Sarah Elfreth and Representative-elect Johnny Olszewski. This will be the first time the Democratic members will be together since the election earlier this month.

Monday, November 18 at 6:00PM, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin and Glenn Ivey will hold a media availability in the U.S. Capitol with Representative-elect April McClain Delaney, Representative-elect Sarah Elfreth and Representative-elect Johnny Olszewski. This will be the first time the Democratic members will be together since the election earlier this month.

U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, and Glenn Ivey will hold a media availability in the U.S. Capitol with officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Maryland Department of Natural Resources to discuss planning for the next stage of the Chesapeake Bay program and restoration efforts.

U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, talks with José Díaz about the UN General Assembly in New York.

U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, talks with Jim Acosta about the UN General Assembly in New York.

"Our federal workforce, career diplomats, career people trying to serve their fellow citizens -- we do not want to politicize our civil workforce. As the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I must tell you, this is the kind of thing authoritarian countries do," said U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.