Ben Cardin: “To me, the strength of America and its influence globally is in our ideals.”

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

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

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.

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