Ben Cardin: “I would hope and assume that behind closed doors there are conversations going on that do take the form of…”

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

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.

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