Ben Cardin: “I appreciate the concerns some in the administration have expressed that such measures might undermine the bilateral…”

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

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.

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