Congress should pass tougher sanctions on Russia. President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine should carry real consequences, and countries helping finance it through purchases of Russian oil and gas should not get a free pass.

The Senate overwhelmingly agreed. To its credit, it also improved the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act before passing it. The current legislation more carefully identifies which countries can be targeted and requires the executive branch to explain its methodology and justify the tariff rate it chooses.

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Those are important guardrails. But before the House gives the president another major tariff power, it should finish the job.

Once a country falls within the statute, the president may impose tariffs of up to 100% on essentially every product that country sells to Americans. Congress requires the administration to explain the rate it chooses, but it does not provide a meaningful statutory standard for deciding whether that rate should be 10%, 50%, or 100%. That is an extraordinary amount of discretion over American........

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