Ben Cardin: “You are prepared to give your personal time meeting with the community as well as meeting with our military.”

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.

We need to consider how we deal with that.

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.