Ben Cardin: “We want to see the country that hosts the chairmanship make the advancements.”

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…

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

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well

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