Ben Cardin: “Strengthening our diplomatic corps is critical to ensuring American national security and economic vitality”

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.

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

We need to consider how we deal with that.