{"id":34268,"date":"2022-04-07T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=34268"},"modified":"2022-04-07T17:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T17:39:24","slug":"congress-passes-two-bills-targeting-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=34268","title":{"rendered":"Congress passes two bills targeting Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KYIV. UkraineGate , 7 , April , 2022 | International news .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Congress is preparing to pass two bipartisan bills in response to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, the latest move by lawmakers before they begin a two-week recess on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House will consider the two bills that just passed the Senate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 First, stopping normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, and punishing countries for invasion by paving the way for imposing higher customs duties on imports from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 The second, a bill to ban energy imports from Russia, including oil, coal and natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate unanimously passed both bills this morning.<br>The Trade Relations Bill is the latest effort by Congress to suppress Russia and aid Ukraine. On Wednesday evening, the Senate passed a bill to provide more rapid military assistance to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the House passes Senate bills, they will be sent to US President Joe Biden&#8217;s office for signature, according to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV. UkraineGate , 7 , April , 2022 | International news . The US Congress is preparing to pass two bipartisan bills in response to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, the latest move by lawmakers before they begin a two-week recess on Friday. The House will consider the two bills that just passed the Senate: \u2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":34269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1884,996,2399,1854],"class_list":["post-34268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-congress","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34270,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34268\/revisions\/34270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}