Benjamin L. Cardin: “When you routinely give the waiver under Section 907, you are saying that Azerbaijan has demonstrated steps to cease all…”

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

We are going to do something about this.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

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.