Ben Cardin: “The NRC is pretty special to those of us in Maryland, since you are headquartered in our State.”

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

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…

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.

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.