Ben Cardin: “The United States, working with our coalition partners, need to be able to provide that type of a framework.”

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

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well

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 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…