Benjamin L. Cardin: “We have the LIHEAP Program for other utilities, and you mentioned in your testimony, Ms. Powell, that you have used the…”

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.

I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

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