Ben Cardin: “I understand that the President is going to invite Mr. Putin to the United States to follow up on the understandings…”

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

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.

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