Ben Cardin: “As has been pointed out frequently, the five nominees that we have before us today all are seeking confirmation for…”

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

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.

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.