Ben Cardin: “But, again, if our policy actions drive them into the arms of Russia and China we will be undercutting these very…”

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

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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

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.