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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScoop: Rand Paul to introduce amendment to lift U.S. sanctions on Russian lawmakers tomorrow
FROM RUSSIA WITH... SANCTIONS RELIEF
Rand Paul Wants to Scrap Some U.S. Sanctions on Russia
The senator will introduce a bill to lift U.S. sanctions on Russian lawmakers if the Kremlin does the same for U.S. lawmakers, The Daily Beast has learned.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is introducing an amendment that would lift U.S. sanctions on Russian lawmakers, The Daily Beast has learned.
The amendment, which will be introduced at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on Wednesday, stipulates that existing U.S. sanctions on members of the Russian Federal Assembly will be lifted if Moscow agrees to lift its own sanctions on certain American members of Congress.
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Paul has made sanctions relief a cause of his since returning from Moscow last month. During that trip, which he took without any of his colleagues, Paul met with Russian officials and delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which the White House later said was written at Pauls request. In addition to meeting with former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, Paul had an hour-long sit-down with Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Russias legislature. During that meeting, according to Pauls office, the senator invited Kosachev, who himself is banned from entering the U.S., to send Russian lawmakers to the U.S. Capitol to meet with their American counterparts. Pauls amendment would be the first step toward allowing those Russians to travel to the U.S.
The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, paid for Pauls trip.
More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rand-paul-wants-to-scrap-some-us-sanctions-on-russia
Rand Paul Wants to Scrap Some U.S. Sanctions on Russia
The senator will introduce a bill to lift U.S. sanctions on Russian lawmakers if the Kremlin does the same for U.S. lawmakers, The Daily Beast has learned.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is introducing an amendment that would lift U.S. sanctions on Russian lawmakers, The Daily Beast has learned.
The amendment, which will be introduced at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on Wednesday, stipulates that existing U.S. sanctions on members of the Russian Federal Assembly will be lifted if Moscow agrees to lift its own sanctions on certain American members of Congress.
... snip
Paul has made sanctions relief a cause of his since returning from Moscow last month. During that trip, which he took without any of his colleagues, Paul met with Russian officials and delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which the White House later said was written at Pauls request. In addition to meeting with former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, Paul had an hour-long sit-down with Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Russias legislature. During that meeting, according to Pauls office, the senator invited Kosachev, who himself is banned from entering the U.S., to send Russian lawmakers to the U.S. Capitol to meet with their American counterparts. Pauls amendment would be the first step toward allowing those Russians to travel to the U.S.
The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, paid for Pauls trip.
More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rand-paul-wants-to-scrap-some-us-sanctions-on-russia
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Scoop: Rand Paul to introduce amendment to lift U.S. sanctions on Russian lawmakers tomorrow (Original Post)
MelissaB
Sep 2018
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Doesn't he need 60 votes.
This is absurd, really.
alwaysinasnit
(5,063 posts)2. Geez. Yet another Russian tool.
spanone
(135,816 posts)3. traitor
Kentucky must be proud.
We despise both of our criminal senators.
spanone
(135,816 posts)8. good news....I love Kentucky
hate they keep sending paul and mccnonnell to d.c.
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Garrett78
(10,721 posts)5. An article on why the Cato Institute would have paid for the trip:
But there are plenty of other examples of the mutual embrace between Moscow and western libertarianism. In particular, the libertarians share with Moscow a profound distaste for the European Union, which they see as a continent-wide epitome of centralisation, and of liberal social norms.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/19/trump-russia-fake-news-libertarians-autocrats-democracy
dalton99a
(81,433 posts)6. Putin's little errand boy
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)9. Another Russian whore who's been to whore school
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)10. Open treason season.