Ben Cardin: “I just really wanted to thank the witnesses and thank the chairman, if I might, for this hearing.”

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

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.

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