RandomGuy
07-09-2018, 05:19 PM
I guess kowtowing to Putin on the 4th of July wasn't enough...?
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Eight Republican members of Congress – seven senators and a House member – thought it’d be a good idea to take a partisan trip to Russia last week, spending the 4th of July in Moscow. Given an opportunity to confront Putin’s government on a range of issues, including its attack on U.S. elections, these GOP lawmakers instead sounded a “conciliatory tone” toward their hosts.
After the Republicans left, Russian state television mocked the U.S. congressional delegation “for appearing to put a weak foot forward.”
It’s against this backdrop that one of the Moscow Eight is publicly questioning the efficacy of existing U.S. sanctions against Russia. The Washington Examiner spoke to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, who also chairs a Senate Foreign Relations panel.
President Trump and U.S. lawmakers should consider revising sanctions targeting Russia so they focus more on Russian oligarchs, a senior Republican lawmaker suggested after participating in a congressional delegation visit to Moscow.
“You do something and nobody ever sits back and analyzes, ‘Well, is it working?’” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told the Washington Examiner. “And I think you’d be hard-pressed to say that sanctions against Russia are really working all that well.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/home-moscow-gop-senator-questions-value-existing-sanctions
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Eight Republican members of Congress – seven senators and a House member – thought it’d be a good idea to take a partisan trip to Russia last week, spending the 4th of July in Moscow. Given an opportunity to confront Putin’s government on a range of issues, including its attack on U.S. elections, these GOP lawmakers instead sounded a “conciliatory tone” toward their hosts.
After the Republicans left, Russian state television mocked the U.S. congressional delegation “for appearing to put a weak foot forward.”
It’s against this backdrop that one of the Moscow Eight is publicly questioning the efficacy of existing U.S. sanctions against Russia. The Washington Examiner spoke to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, who also chairs a Senate Foreign Relations panel.
President Trump and U.S. lawmakers should consider revising sanctions targeting Russia so they focus more on Russian oligarchs, a senior Republican lawmaker suggested after participating in a congressional delegation visit to Moscow.
“You do something and nobody ever sits back and analyzes, ‘Well, is it working?’” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told the Washington Examiner. “And I think you’d be hard-pressed to say that sanctions against Russia are really working all that well.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/home-moscow-gop-senator-questions-value-existing-sanctions