Ben Cardin: “I do believe we have to put the resources up for East Asia and the Pacific.”

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

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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.