Ben Cardin: “When we fail to act, the world all too often is silent as well.”

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.

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

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