Ben Cardin: “Democracy has made strong gains in Asia over the past few decades.”

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

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

We are going to do something about this.

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