Ben Cardin: “The role that we play in development assistance is equally important part of our national security budget.”

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.

We are going to do something about this.

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