Ben Cardin: “The last several budgets by the Obama administration have tried to balance that to reflect the priority in Asia.”

We are going to do something about this.

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.

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

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