Senate attempting to add Russia sanctions to Iran bill

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Karoun Demirjian June 7 at 4:19 AM

A group of leading senators, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), has been negotiating a way to pass more stringent sanctions against Russia in the coming week by piggybacking on an upcoming a measure cracking down on ballistic missile tests in Iran.

The talks, which according to senior Senate aides involve the heads of at least the Banking and Senate Foreign Relations committees, plus Senate leaders and a handful of Congress’ most outspoken Russia critics, are geared toward attaching Russia sanctions by amendment to a popular Iran sanctions bill the Senate is expected to take up Wednesday — just as intelligence and Justice Department officials head to Capitol Hill to testify about alleged Russian meddling in the presidential election. Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, and former FBI director James B. Comey is expected to testify Thursday.

The exact substance of the Russia sanctions senators hope to attach to the Iran bill is not yet clear, but according to senior Senate aides, talks have focused on the substance offered by a set of bills already on offer, addressing everything from Russia’s aggressive activities in Ukraine and Syria to allegations that Russian hackers tried to swing an American election.

One of those bills is a recent measure, from Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and ranking Democrat Sherrod Brown (Ohio), to codify into law existing sanctions against Russia that the Obama administration imposed in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2014. Their bill adds to those existing sanctions new sectoral measures against Russia’s mining, metals and railways; individual sanctions against Russian hackers and corruption; and tools to better track illicit Russian financing, as well as oligarchs’ holdings in the United States.

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[COLGATE4]

1. Rruh Rro... Dumpy isn't going to like that at all. I predict twitter storms

with unintelligible babbling by surrogates.

[leftynyc]

2. Are we starting to see

a crack in the slavish devotion to degenerate donnie from senate republicans?

[3_Limes]

3. I'm a little confused on this.

Isn't this a direct rebuttal of the only fixed policy position that 45 holds? Why would Yurtle & Co. antagonize the boss like that? Is he banking on the (admittedly strong) possibility that 45 won't find out about this until well after the fact? Or is it due to an actual desire to govern, and protect the Country?

[MedusaX]

4. Strange...The bill is S 94 ... Which is Ben Cardin's bill that has been held up by The committee

(Senate banking committee) that Crapo is on..

Now Crapo & Brown...
who were not part of the original 20 bipartisan co-sponsors ...
Are cited as the responsible persons....

I don't care who gets the 'credit/blame' ....
but it appears to be indicative of a HUGE
Crack in the KGOP Family Bond....

Since the bill was introduced in early January...
and has been on the back burner ever since....



https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/94/all-info

[geek tragedy]

5. interesting to see which Rs vote against this nt

[DK504]

6. Has Yertle finally realized he is going to lose his job

for supporting this traitor? He has been sucking off the government and citizens of America it's time Kentucky to kick his ass out. He is one of those trying his hardest to take away the healthcare the citizens of Kentucky love.

Please Yertle keep trying to fuck us over....I want to watch you get thrown out of office.