Ben Cardin: “When we do not pass an authorization bill, we are not carrying that out the way we should.”

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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

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.

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