Ben Cardin: “I am going to make a plea to my Republican colleagues.”

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

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.

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