Posted on 03/25/2022 4:12:00 AM PDT by RandFan
The Senate is struggling to quickly pass popular bipartisan legislation to suspend normal trade relations with Russia, likely further stalling a top priority of President Joe Biden as he conducts NATO meetings in Europe.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is preventing the chamber from approving the bill before senators leave Washington for the weekend over his opposition to language in the measure regarding sanctions for global human-rights abusers.
Paul, who generally opposes sanctions as a means of punishing a foreign nation, is demanding that the House-passed measure be amended to restrict what he sees as an overly broad authorization for executive-branch sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act — a 2016 law intended to crack down on human-rights abuses.
“If you don’t define what human-rights abuses are, you set up something so wide open that you could have abuse of a president who’s allowed to sanction anyone in the world for anything they feel like,” Paul said in a brief interview.
“We won’t let them pass it unless they put [my amendment] in there,” Paul declared. “So they’re either going to put it in there or they’re going to be here for a week doing it. Because I won’t let it go without the amendment in it. It has to be the body of it.”
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Go Rand!
You have to pass it to find out what’s in it!
“Go Rand!”
Hell yea!!! Enough of this following the Democrats around like a string of donkeys.
Yay Rand, yes, he knows the Senate is a DELIBERATIVE body, not just Biden ass-kissing one.
The US should be breaking up the Big Tech companies that censor Americans.
That is a human rights abuse we can actually fix.
——President Joe Biden as he conducts NATO ——
Biden is not a conductor. In his reduced status as an international joke, Biden is merely an attender. Biden will vote yes to European decisions
Rand Paul a reliable protector of freedom and the moral compass of the US Senate.
That’s a warning sign right there.
I’m so proud he’s one of my Senators. They other one? Not so much.
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