Ben Cardin: “We're going to do everything humanly possible to preserve Ellicott City. It is a treasure.”

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.

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