Next week: Senate responds to Russia election hacks

Published June 10, 2017 4:01am ET



The Senate next week will vote on legislation that will call for sanctions against Russia for meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections.

The expected action against Russia will happen in the context of a bill to impose new sanctions against Iran over its ballistic missile testing and support of terrorism in the Middle East. Lawmakers plan to add one or more amendments that would also punish Russia, in part for cyber-attacks that occurred during the 2016 election and that undermined the Democratic National Committee and presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

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