{"id":313726,"date":"2017-06-20T23:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T22:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iran-russia-sanctions-bill-faces-procedural-problem-in-us-house\/"},"modified":"2017-06-20T23:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T22:01:43","slug":"iran-russia-sanctions-bill-faces-procedural-problem-in-us-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iran-russia-sanctions-bill-faces-procedural-problem-in-us-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Russia sanctions bill faces procedural problem in US House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A bill aimed at imposing new sanctions on Iran and Russia has hit a roadblock in the US House of Representatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A procedural problem in the lower chamber of the United States Congress could halt a quick vote for the legislation that passed the Senate nearly unanimously last week, US lawmakers said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, senators voted 98-2 to pass the Countering Iran&#8217;s Destabilizing Activities Act, to which anti-Russia sanctions were also attached.<\/p>\n<p>Before it is signed into law by US President Donald Trump, the measure has to pass the House.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are now arguing that the legislation violates the US constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called &#8220;blue slip&#8221; violation occurs thanks to a constitutional requirement, which stipulates that\u00a0any bill raising revenue for the government must originate in the House not the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The final bill, and final language, violated the origination clause in the Constitution,&#8221; Representative Kevin Brady, the Republican chairman of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/06\/20\/525988\/AntiIran-Russia-bill-hits-roadblock-in-US-House\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill aimed at imposing new sanctions on Iran and Russia has hit a roadblock in the US House of Representatives. A procedural problem in the lower chamber of the United States Congress could halt a quick vote for the legislation that passed the Senate nearly unanimously last week, US lawmakers said Tuesday. Last week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}