Ben Cardin: “We have taken strong leadership with our military to make it clear that they cannot at all participate in those types of…”

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

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

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.