Ben Cardin: “In our hemisphere, the countries that are represented here are all democratic countries in that they all have the…”

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.

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

We need to consider how we deal with that.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.