Ben Cardin: “Clearly the damage that was done, and in Exxon Valdez I think the damages far exceeded $75 million to the natural…”

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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

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.

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.