Ben Cardin: “Chairman Leahy apologizes for not personally being here today.”

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.

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

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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