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Senate overwhelmingly votes to curtail Trump’s power to ease Russia sanctions

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Occam

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The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow Congress to block any efforts by the president to scale back sanctions against Russia, and to strengthen those sanctions in retaliation for Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 election and its actions in Syria.

The vote of 97 to 2 is a sharp rebuke to President Trump’s posture on Russia and his resistance to the intelligence community’s assessment that the country was behind efforts to influence the election he won.

The two senators who voted against the measure were Republicans Rand Paul (Ky.) and Mike Lee (Utah).

Trump has repeatedly and openly doubted the intelligence community’s finding that Russia meddled in the presidential election.
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More at the link. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...02d73a-5134-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html

While this isn't the beginning of the end, maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.
 
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Hypemaster

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97 to 2
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Zolo

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Posted this in the original thread, so I figured I'd post it here too.

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According to Business Insider, Sherrod Brown says the white house is already pushing back.

http://www.businessinsider.com/senate-russia-sanctions-trump-2017-6

Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, one of the bill's cosponsor, told reporters on Wednesday that the White House was already beginning to lobby against the measure.

"I know that some people in the White House are pushing back," Brown said. "People in the White House, we hear, are making calls in the House to try to stop it, slow it, weaken it, dilute it."

A White House official told Business Insider on Wednesday that the administration thinks the bill, in its current form, "poses a number of risks to the administration's ability to conduct foreign policy." The official noted, however, that the White House was "still reviewing" the legislation and will not put out a position until it is amended in the House and lands on Trump's desk.

"Generally speaking, sanctions policies should be carefully calibrated by the foreign policy experts in the executive branch," the official added, noting that the administration "remains committed" to the existing sanctions.
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I'm guessing there'll be at least one call to Paul Ryan asking to not bring up the bill for a vote.
 
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cackhyena

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This is Trump's worst birthday by far. Has to be. I can almost hear him saying " why'd all this shit have to happen on my birthday?"
 
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Lord Frieza

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PeakPointMatrix said:
There must have been a bomb dropped in the closed room hearings for it to be this unanimous right? Who are the 2 that voted against?
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Rand and Lee

Zolo said:
Posted this in the original thread, so I figured I'd post it here too.

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According to Business Insider, Sherrod Brown says the white house is already pushing back.

http://www.businessinsider.com/senate-russia-sanctions-trump-2017-6



I'm guessing there'll be at least one call to Paul Ryan asking to not bring up the bill for a vote.
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Yep, nothing weird here
 
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Steel

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It's in the GOP's best interest to make sure that Trump doesn't hang himself by easing Russian sanctions.
 
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ultracal31

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cackhyena said:
This is Trump's worst birthday by far. Has to be. I can almost hear him saying " why'd all this shit have to happen on my birthday?"
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I actually suspect that the next rally or tweet with make reference to how "mean" it was to do this on someone's birthday
 
benjipwns

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Yes, Paul said he was voting against Iran sanctions no matter what:
US Senator Rand Paul has warned the administration of Donald Trump against imposing new economic sanctions on Iran, saying ”new sanctions are a fool's errand, and they will not work."

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Senator Paul urged the US government not to impose sanctions on Iran on the pretext of ballistic missile program, which Iran says is defensive.

He wrote that it is not fair to punish Iran when the Islamic Republic's all hostile neighbors like Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel have advanced missile programs.

”As we look at the ballistic missile section, we recall that Saudi Arabia also has ballistic missiles, the Dong Feng-3s and -21s. Where are they pointed? Tel Aviv and Tehran," he wrote.

”Our CIA inspected the DF-21s and said they are not currently nuclear capable. But are they convertible? Are they nuclear capable? Yeah, they are nuclear capable, and they are pointed at Israel and Iran," he added.

Senator Paul called on the United States to curb Saudi Arabia's ballistic missile program and Israel's nuclear weapons program in order control arms proliferation in the Middle East region, otherwise ”these sanctions [against Iran] will have [no] effect."

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”So, if you wanted to influence the behavior of Iran, you might consider sanctioning Saudi Arabia in equal fashion," he said.

”Another way of doing it would be to withhold the $350 billion worth of new weapons and missiles to Saudi Arabia until both sides come together to discuss an arms control treaty. Perhaps you could say we are going to withhold that offer until Saudi Arabia agrees to negotiate with Iran," he argued.
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In addition, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) may yet use the Iran bill as a vehicle to force a vote on their resolution blocking about $500 million in Trump-blessed weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
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Seven Democrats were opposed to the bill as Iran sanctions and six voted against this bill coming to the floor before it got amended with the Russia sanctions:
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) issued statements saying now is the wrong time to vote on the sanctions, which are aimed at punishing Tehran for its human rights violations and its support of terrorist-designated groups
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No idea why Lee slid in. He was for the Iran sanctions last I knew.
 
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