Ben Cardin: “I think this Administration is trying to move in that direction to give some predictability to the laws.”

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

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

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.

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