Ben Cardin: “Thank you, Chairman Cardin and Ranking Member Paul and members of the Committee for the opportunity to be here today.”

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

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.

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.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.