Ben Cardin: “My concern is that USAID is being asked to devote resources to a politically determined objective, rather than to…”

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.

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

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