Senators reach Russia sanctions deal

CNN ^ | 13 June 2017 12:34am ET | Jeremy Herb and Ashley Killough

[blueplum]

Washington (CNN)Senate leaders struck an agreement Monday to roll out additional sanctions on Russia and make it difficult for the President to lift them. The Senate Foreign Relations and Banking Committee announced a deal that had the support of the committee's top Democrats and Republicans that's expected to attract wide bipartisan support.

The proposal would provide for a congressional review process if the executive branch eases current sanctions on Russia. And it imposes new sanctions in a number of categories, including those "conducting malicious cyber activity on behalf of the Russian government" and "supplying weapons to the Assad regime.

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The issue saw renewed attention after Yahoo News recently reported that Trump administration officials began developing plans to lift sanctions almost as soon as they took office.

Former State Department official Dan Fried, who was quoted in Yahoo's story, later clarified to CNN that he did not have first-hand knowledge that the Trump administration would attempt to unilaterally relax Russia sanctions, but did reach out to some members of Congress because he was concerned by rumors...

[blueplum]

is it really necessary, is it placing undue limits on presidential power, or is it just more showboating?

Cardin, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Sen. Mike Crapo, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown

[DoughtyOne]

NO!

This is B.S.

They are trying to prevent any decent relations with Russia, and that is very very bad.

How do you keep a leader in the loops, and make it less likely for him to do stupid things?

Granted, it didn’t work with Hitler, but I don’t see Putin as Hitler. Russia is not WWII Germany.

The Senate needs to back off, and I hope Trump tells them to pound sand.

VETO pen at the ready...

[onedoug]

What is the effing Senate doing to combat enemy islamism?

A whole lot of nuffin’. That’s what.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks so much for your support to this point... I personally apprecaite it...
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[Williams]

Insanity.

[DoughtyOne]

John has been the second most corrosive political hack in the U.S. over the last thirty years. I’d even say he ran cover for Obama to do some of the terrible things he did.

He has given Reagan, Bush, and now Trump problems. He’s a malcontent, and doesn’t mind doing serious harm to our nation just so he can look important, in his own mind.

This guy needs to go. I wish there were a way we as private citizens could cut his term short.

[BBell]

Somehow I see George Soros in the mix here.

[donna]

CNN reports?

We need better info.

[blueplum]

agreed. Term limits is the only answer, or even age limits. That or a year’s long case of laryngitis.

[DoughtyOne]

How about “jerk limits”?

“:^)

[tophat9000]

These F-—ing aholes was to start a war

[dp0622]

We are getting hit from all sides.

RINOs and neocons want a good war and an ousted Trump.

Their wet dream is an ousted Pence also with Ryan taking the helm.

Sickening.

Time to start firing back with both guns blazing.

Forget usual politics. They are out to get him. FIRE Mueller.

Sessions, after speaking to congress, needs to END this investigation.

Or at best months will turn into years with this thing blocking any chance of getting work done.

[blueplum]

I got one...how about for a term of one year from elections, defeated candidates can’t introduce any legislation that would affect presidential powers. They can introduce all the other legislation they want.

[DesertRhino]

Supplying weapons to Assad? I see nothing wrong with that. He only shoots them at islamists, sunni terror groups (also known as moderates) and ISIS.

[silverleaf]

Yes, this one needs to go to a retirement hime in Arizona with John McCain
Trump needs to move forward on building relations with Russia , not let a group of bought- and- paid warmonger Senators run foreign policy

[silverleaf]

Look at the donors to “ The McCain Foundation”

[snarkytart]

morons, every one of them.

glad to see they’re working doing something productive for this country.

[Bratch]

Gee, remember when the Congress voted to give the President total control to negotiate agreements with a foreign country?

[Hugin]

Pubs never tried to limit Obama like that, and the Dims certainly never would be “bipartisan” if it were reversed.

[Pollster1]

This is a shockingly bad idea - harmful to the United States, to Russia, and to the presidency. Trump and Putin need to hack this process. Show some large, concrete anti-terrorist cooperation now to stifle this effort. Flatten some ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Boko Haram training camps through joint efforts in several countries.