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BumRushDaShow

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16. Congress had a "dealine" to provide them the list of sanctions targets
Tue Jan 30, 2018, 11:22 AM
Jan 2018

by this past Monday. That was not done and a statement was included in a tweet that made the rounds here on DU regarding what their plans were going to be.

Meanwhile the NYT had an article today that had the following -


Trump Administration Holds Off on New Russia Sanctions, Despite Law

By REUTERS JAN. 30, 2018, 1:18 A.M. E.S.T.

<...>

Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, one of the main congressional architects of the sanctions law, said he was not concerned that the administration did not announce sanctions by Monday's deadline.

"This is when sanctions season begins, and so they'll be rolling them out," he told reporters.

"We feel pretty good about the process," Corker said. "They're rushing the information over to us today, and by the close of business, they're going to have two of the three, as I understand it. So they're taking it very seriously."

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/01/30/world/europe/30reuters-usa-russia-sanctions.html


I know Corker is supposedly retiring and has been critical in the past, but am not sure how much he believes that the WH is "rushing the information over" to him.... but we shall see!

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