Ben Cardin: “I want to thank Senator Merkley for his leadership in introducing this important legislation”

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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.

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

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