Ben Cardin: “The amount of corruption in both of those countries is alarming.”

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 imposed sanctions on the individual.

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