“It would have been nice to have this in it.” “I don’t know what they had to do to move NDAA along,” Risch said in a brief interview. That meant that proposals like Risch’s and Menendez’s, which never received a vote in either chamber, were left on the cutting-room floor.
Jim Risch of Idaho, that would have sanctioned the gas pipeline running from Germany to Russia known as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.īut some Senate Republicans objected to the final list of amendments slated to receive a vote on the Senate floor, causing Democratic leaders to abandon the traditional process and rely on the House and Senate Armed Services committees to hammer out a consensus bill. The Senate was on track to vote on two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act last week that would have imposed harsh sanctions on Russia - one offered by Menendez that would effectively cripple the Russian economy if Putin moved into Ukraine, and another by his GOP counterpart on the committee, Sen. Partisan squabbling over the annual defense bill left congressional negotiators with little time to finish up the legislation before the end of the year. It wasn’t for lack of trying that the House and Senate left stringent penalties for a Russian invasion of Ukraine off the table.
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