Ben Cardin: “I agree with you that we need to have the programs in place to support democracy and democratic institutions.”

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.

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

We need to consider how we deal with that.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.