Ben Cardin: “Those words just are beyond hurtful. They are--Senator Schumer is one of the champions on these causes.”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

We are going to do something about this.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

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.