Ben Cardin: “There is a lot of support by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress to make sure that your role is clear that…”

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.

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

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