Ben Cardin: “Part of bringing the budget into balance is that we are going to have to make those types of sacrifices.”

Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

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 need to consider how we deal with that.

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well