Ben Cardin: “Make no mistake about it. Atrocities are taking place in Burma. We have a humanitarian crisis.”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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

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 hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.