Ben Cardin: “If we look at the deep problems in Russia today, the motivation there is more corruption than anything else.”

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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 imposed sanctions on the individual.