Ben Cardin: “If we want to save the needs for humanitarian assistance, let's deal with the root causes.”

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

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

We are going to do something about this.

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.