Ben Cardin: “I do not necessarily believe these are accurate numbers, do not get me wrong.”

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.

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.