Ben Cardin: “Thank you Chairman Dorgan for the opportunity to share our views on an issue that is of great importance to our region.”

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

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

We are going to do something about this.

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.