Ben Cardin: “I am hopeful to hear from all of our nominees today on how they will advance American leadership and interests in this…”

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

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.

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