Ben Cardin: “Reserving the right to object. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Maryland.”

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.

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

We are going to do something about this.