Ben Cardin: “As we look at smart growth, we are trying to affect where development will take place.”

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

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.

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.