Ben Cardin: “The Leahy rule, which is one that I support, indicates that we do not give aid to countries that do not adhere to basic…”

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

We are going to do something about this.

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