Ben Cardin: “I would just caution you, as far as timing, that the record of the Senate taking up treaties and passing them is----”

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

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

We are going to do something about this.