Ben Cardin: “In my view the Court has weakened environmental protections that were hard fought here in Congress.”

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

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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.

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