Ben Cardin: “Too many times, we have been putting that down as a second priority rather than a high priority.”

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

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

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

We imposed sanctions on the individual.