Ben Cardin: “I want to focus on the implementation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act.”

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.

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.

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