Benjamin L. Cardin: “I want to thank Senator Risch for working with me on this year's State Department authorization bill.”

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

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.

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.

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.