Ben Cardin: “Let me make this clear. We made it more complicated, basically, at the request of our international partners and the…”

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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

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…

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.