Bipartisan senators welcome deal with Trump on stalled Russia sanctions bill  

A bipartisan group of senators announced Friday they reached an agreement with the White House on language for a Russia sanctions bill stalled in Congress for more than a year. 

“We are proud to announce that we have reached an agreement with the Trump Administration to move our updated Russia sanctions legislation forward,” Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said in the statement. “We are very pleased with this significant progress and expect to roll out the legislation very soon.”

“As Russia intensifies its slaughter of civilians, it is imperative that the legislative and executive branches work together to create tools to exact a heavy price on those who buy Russian oil and natural gas, fueling the Putin war machine,” they added.

It’s not clear what changes lawmakers and the White House agreed to that put them on the same page. A push to move the bill forward in December was blocked by Democrats over opposition to granting the president tariff authorities amid a pending Supreme Court case.

The Sanctioning Russia Act was first introduced........

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