Ben Cardin: “I certainly would think our language here at times has been counterproductive to keeping some of our best in public…”

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

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.

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