Ben Cardin: “This is exactly what the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should be doing on oversight.”

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.

Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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