Ben Cardin: “I am disappointed we do not have the people in the administration who can appear before this committee.”

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

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.

We are going to do something about this.

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