{"id":46472,"date":"2022-03-23T10:54:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46472"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:55:11","slug":"gop-senator-prevents-quick-passage-of-house-bill-limiting-russian-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46472","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator prevents quick passage of House bill limiting Russian trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A House-passed bill to end normal trade relations with Russia is getting snagged in the Senate by a fight over whether or not to include a ban on importing Russian oil in the legislation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) tried to quickly pass the House legislation, which cleared that chamber last week in an 424-8 vote, arguing that it would be a symbolic show of unity while President Biden is traveling to meet with European allies in response to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Crapo (Idaho), the top Republican on the Finance Committee, blocked Schumer&#8217;s request. Crapo had previously warned that he would block quick passage of the House bill if it didn&#8217;t include the oil ban.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House-passed bill to end normal&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46473,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46472\/revisions\/46473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}