Ben Cardin: “The issues you are facing seem very much akin to those faced by two particular energy industries I support.”

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.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

We are going to do something about this.

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