Ben Cardin: “I have known Carolyn Colvin for 30 years, Mr. Chairman, and I concur completely in Senator Mikulski's evaluations.”

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

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…

We need to consider how we deal with that.

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well