Putin, Russia Put on Notice as Senate Takes Crucial Step to Grind Down the Kremlin’s War Machine – Democratic Accent

US Senate to begin voting on Russia sanctions bill on day of Graham's funeral – media

On the day of the funeral of the bill’s author, Lindsey Graham, the U.S.

Senate advances Lindsey Graham’s long-stalled Russia sanctions bill just hours after his funeral

The Senate advanced a long-stalled Russia sanctions bill Tuesday that was championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham just hours after his funeral service in Washington.

Putin, Russia put on notice as Senate takes crucial step to grind down the Kremlin’s war machine – Democratic Accent

The Senate took its first major step in fulfilling one of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s biggest desires: levying bone-crushing sanctions against Russia. A bipartisan swell carried the sanctions package through its first hurdle, which has gone through several iterations in the time since it was first formulated by Graham and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “The basic, core function of the bill is to stop purchases of Russian oil and gas from fu…