Ben Cardin: “How does a country like this have 12 million to 14 million slaves in the year 2016? How does that happen?”

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

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.

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

We need to consider how we deal with that.