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S. 722 (Countering Iran's Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017) was the overall bill passed on June 15. Rand and Sanders voted 'no'.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/L...n=1&vote=00147
S.Amdt. 232 to S. 722 (Countering Iran's Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017) was an amendment on the bill which passed on June 14. Rand and Mike Lee voted 'no'.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/L...n=1&vote=00144
So the final bill put sanctions on both Iran and Russia:
- Mike Lee wanted sanctions on Iran but not Russia but in the final bill he ended up voting for putting sanctions on both.
- Sanders wanted sanctions on Russia but not Iran but in the final bill he ended up voting against putting sanctions on both.
- Rand didn't want sanctions on Russia or Iran and in the final bill he voted against putting sanctions on both.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
(I wondered how long it would take Europe to wake up. )
"That Must Not Happen": Germany Threatens US With Retaliation Over New Russia Sanctions
Last edited by goldenequity; 06-16-2017 at 07:24 PM.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Goldenequity you keep coming up with these great posts but the system won't let me +rep you right now. I have no problem with destroying NATO, but this is not good. There is a real re-aligning being done among countries; that Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Qatar are our bestest of friends while we push Europe away does not seem too smart to me.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
OK- looks like Lee voted against the amendment which included Russia and voted for the original bill which is basically about Iran.
Too bad- I think Lee's usually more intelligent that this.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee was one of just two senators Wednesday who voted against a bipartisan measure to impose sanctions on Russia for cyberattacks and meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Lee believes the amendment, part of a bigger, still pending package, which also includes sanctions on Iran, is costly and ultimately doesn't hit the mark.
"The Russian sanctions amendment included funding for programs and support of policies that I believe are not effective at addressing problems in the U.S.-Russia relationship and have promoted progressive policies unrelated to countering Russia at the expense of American taxpayers," Lee said in a statement.
Lee specifically opposed a section of the amendment that appropriates $250 million to coordinate aid and counter cyberattacks in a handful of countries "vulnerable to influence."
During a "tele town hall" Wednesday night, where Lee answered questions in an online video chat, the senator said those funds could potentially go to nongovernmental groups that "have in the past spent money on politically divisive projects."
"I'm not about to authorize new spending — $250 million or a lesser sum or a greater sum — to do that again without adequate restraints in place to make sure that these international organizations aren't going to blow this money or aren't going to spend it in a way that's harmful to the interests of the American people," he explained.
The other senator voting no, Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, told The Washington Examiner that he doesn't favor any new measures against Iran or Russia. The sanctions that passed Wednesday, he added, are inadequate, like "tweaking their nose."
There is no spoon.
I've been waiting for this cake to bake.
They're cutting their own throats and they need to stop.
Developing ties & trade with Russia, China and the EurAsian trading bloc
only makes absolute logical sense sense for them.
Politics should never drive markets.. bad things happen when it does.
Europe became the punching bag taking all the economic hits for this US 'policy'.
I didn't post the F U video to express antagonism to Europeans..
I posted to portray how
Deep State types like Pyatt & Nuland mock and ridicule them for it.
They're not 'allies'.. they're treated like vassal states
It confounds me why they put up with it.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Last edited by goldenequity; 06-17-2017 at 01:34 PM.
Just L@@K at these headlines... Syria is going to get her country back... hegemon Syrian plans R done. Assad Must Go!! hahaha
http://en.farsnews.com/Default.aspx
funny stuff...
CNN mourns the loss of their fallen caliph
Last edited by goldenequity; 06-17-2017 at 01:55 PM.
...it seems to me, on the most important of issue$, 'there ain't a dimes difference' between [ugh]lee and the rest of the republicrat warmongering monetary ignoramuses fed to us by the backroom $tring-puller$...
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-P...rling-Mike-Lee
"Lee, 39, has been to Israel in the past and is considered a strong supporter. His wife lived and studied here for an extended period of time at the Brigham Young University extension in Jerusalem.In a pre-election position paper Lee wrote that Israel is Washington’s closest ally in the Middle East, and “faces many of the same threats confronting the United States.”His position paper said he supported the “maintenance of Israel’s qualitative military edge” and “direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority based on the fundamental principles that Israel should remain – and be recognized by the Palestinians as – a Jewish state.” Even before meeting Netanyahu, Lee said in his position paper that Israel “must have safe and secure borders and the ability to monitor and protect those borders,” and that if there are disagreements between Israel and the US, “those differences should be discussed and resolved in private, as is befitting the close relationship between two great democratic allies. No country, including the United States, should seek to impose any agreement upon Israel.”
After the meeting with Netanyahu, one government source said that Lee is not “neutral” on Israel – “he is a friend.”
ZEROHEDGE
Trump Cornered: White House Pushing To Weaken Russia Sanctions Bill
The new 'sanctions' dictate is US designed to confound/delay
the Nordstrum 2 gas pipeline deal direct from Russia to Germany hub
(look ma NO TRANSIT FEES! Shrinks European dependency on US GAS shipments)
If Trump vetoes... Deepstate portrays him as manchurian Prez.
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"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
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"Let it not be said that we did nothing."-Ron Paul
"We have set them on the hobby-horse of an idea about the absorption of individuality by the symbolic unit of COLLECTIVISM. They have never yet and they never will have the sense to reflect that this hobby-horse is a manifest violation of the most important law of nature, which has established from the very creation of the world one unit unlike another and precisely for the purpose of instituting individuality."- A Quote From Some Old Book
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