Ben Cardin: “Thank you for your leadership and your willingness to engage this Committee, members of the Senate, as well as…”

We are going to do something about this.

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…

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

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