Ben Cardin: “The money we spend abroad is not a gift to foreign nations. It is an investment in our national security.”

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

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

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…

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.