Ben Cardin: “The United States relies on allies to maintain strong democratic institutions, open economies, and defense capabilities.”

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.