Ben Cardin: “Supporting human rights is a critical component of our development assistance programs.”

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.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

We are going to do something about this.

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