Ben Cardin: “Well, Senator Gardner, first of all, thank you for your leadership on this subcommittee.”

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.

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

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.

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