Benjamin L. Cardin: “The Department of State and the work of our diplomats do every day has never been more important.”

Senator Cardin, I thank you for your leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

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.

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well