Ben Cardin: “The State Department should take the lead on this. Those are the values of our country.”

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.

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

We are going to do something about this.

It was originally a piece of legislation targeting the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky.