Ben Cardin: “It is important that it be an open process. And I just would urge us, we need to develop what is right for America.”

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

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

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.

We are going to do something about this.