Ben Cardin: “Last week was a victory for the Russian people over authoritarianism, corruption, and repression.”

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

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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.

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