Ben Cardin: “The Magnitsky global human rights bill that was championed by Senator McCain and myself is now available globally”

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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.