Republican senators are circulating a bill that would reimpose sanctions against Nord Stream 2 and its Russian-allied CEO after the Biden administration waived them, the Washington Examiner has learned, after the GOP and some Democrats condemned letting the Kremlin-backed project off the hook.
The proposed legislation, led by Senate Armed Services Committee member Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, and joined by other members, has been dubbed the Protecting Our Well-being by Expanding Russian Sanctions Act. A statement from Cramer’s office says the bill would “build on recently-passed bipartisan sanctions against Russia” and “reinstate and expand sanctions the Biden Administration is waiving on Russian people and entities” involved in the pipeline’s construction.
