Ben Cardin: “Let me thank Senator Boxer and Senator Carper both for your extraordinary leadership on this issue and related issues.”

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

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it 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.