Ben Cardin: “We do not always have hearings that are this--Senator Hatch, I know you are always respectful, but sometimes there is a…”

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

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

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.