Ben Cardin: “The United States absolutely must take the lead on this.”

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

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.

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