Ben Cardin: “Preventing mass atrocities are core to U.S. national security interests as they have ripple effects for entire regions.”

Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

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

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.

It was originally a piece of legislation targeting the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky.