Ben Cardin: “I firmly believe the Federal Government has an important role in ensuring that local governments can continue to provide…”

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.

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

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