Ben Cardin: “We have been talking about this for a long time. I would hope we could come up with a more consistent national strategy.”

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.

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.

We are going to do something about this.