Ben Cardin: “Congress is the entity to make our laws.”

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.

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

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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