Ben Cardin: “Well, Mr. Swartz. I think that money can be consequential, from the Department of Justice's point of view.”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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.

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