Ben Cardin: “Mr. Assad must be held accountable for his activities, and that cannot be compromised in a final political settlement.”

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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.

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