US White House wants changes in anti-Russia sanctions bill

MOSCOW, Jul 11 (PRIME) -- The U.S. presidential administration supported a bill introducing more sanctions against Iran and Russia in general late on Monday but objected to stipulations restricting the presidential authority on the bill.

White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short said: “The legislation, we believe, sets an unusual precedent of delegating foreign policy to 535 members of Congress by not including certain national security waivers that have always been consistently part of sanctions bills in the past.”

The Senate voted for the bill on June 15 and sent the document to the House of Representatives, where it remains on dispute because a technical procedure of bill submission was violated. Under the U.S. constitution, the draft order must have been considered by the House of Representatives before the Senate because it has a potential of raising the state budget income.

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