Ben Cardin: “Lasting peace and stability depends just as much on meeting our citizens' legitimate aspirations as they do our military…”

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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.