Ben Cardin: “It does look like an end run around Congress.”

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.

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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

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