Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., urged three government watchdog offices to investigate whether two Trump administration officials had conflicts of interest while advocating for the U.S. to sell advanced AI chips to the United Arab Emirates.
Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, who recently led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Ukraine, Poland and Germany, called on House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sept. 24 to schedule a House floor vote on the proposed Sanctioning Russia Act, which would impose additional sanctions on Russia and new tariffs on countries that buy its oil and gas.
Rep. Josh Riley, D-N.Y., introduced a bill Sept. 18 that would prohibit foreign ownership of American public utility companies. Riley said his legislation is needed to prevent U.S. consumers from subsidizing foreign corporate profits. The Keep the Lights Local Act was referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., “strongly supports” Senate legislation that would require U.S. manufacturers of advanced AI computing chips to make their products available to American firms before selling them to China, the panel said Sept. 22.
While meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly High Level Week in New York City Sept. 22, Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., “emphasized the need for Congress to pass” her bill to end a U.S. economic sanctions law targeting Syria, a Shaheen press release said.
A bipartisan group of six senators introduced a bill Sept. 19 aimed at transferring about $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a State Department reauthorization bill Sept. 18 that would consolidate the State Department’s sanctions activities into a new Sanctions Policy Bureau led by an assistant secretary for sanctions policy (see 2509110039).
Eight Senate Democrats led by Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged the Trump administration Sept. 19 to sanction individuals and entities that have made China the first country to buy liquefied natural gas from the U.S.-sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia.
A bipartisan group of nine senators introduced a bill Sept. 18 that would expand U.S. sanctions authorities against the “shadow fleet” of tankers Russia has deployed to circumvent the international price cap on its oil and generate funds for its military.
Three congressional Democrats asked the Treasury Department Sept. 18 to provide more information about its recent decision to delay and possibly revise a new anti-money-laundering rule for investment advisers (see 2507240021).