Ben Cardin: “One thing I really want to see the administration do is to make an active effort to persuade the European Union to adopt…”

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

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.

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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