Ben Cardin: “This hearing couldn't be more appropriately chaired by Senator Wicker, 'Tools for Transnational Repression.'”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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

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