Ben Cardin: “Senator Lugar and I have joined together on a transparency initiative to make sure that the wealth of a country goes to…”

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.

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

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 imposed sanctions on the individual.