Ben Cardin: “We are the wealthiest Nation in the world that spends the most of any nation on drugs, and yet we have important drugs…”

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.

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.