Ben Cardin: “I think never in our history have we had so many global challenges in which the work of the State Department can be…”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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…

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

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