Ben Cardin: “I fully recognize the need for you to have the authority to go after those who have damaged our refuges and to be able…”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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

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.

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