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Here are the 8 House Republicans who voted against suspending normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus

Author:     Bryan Metzger
Source:     Business Insider
Publication Date:     Mar 17, 2022, 1:53 PM
 Link: Here are the 8 House Republicans who voted against suspending normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus
Stephan:   Given what you have been seeing on the television every day it may seem almost impossible that 8 Republicans from the stupid wing of Trump world could vote not to sanction Russia and Belarus for their war crimes, but they did. Now can we please vote these cretins out of office?
From left: Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado; Matt Gaetz of Florida; Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia; and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. All voted against the Russia trade bill. 
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The House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to suspend normal trade relations with both Russia and Belarus amid the war in Ukraine.

The Suspending Normal Trade Relations With Russia and Belarus Act, which passed by a 424-8 margin, allows President Joe Biden to increase tariffs on products coming from the two countries and requires the US trade representative to seek suspension of Russia’s participation in the World Trade Organization.

The legislation must now pass the Senate and be signed by Biden to be enacted into law.

This move came one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to Congress, and a week after the House also voted to enact tougher sanctions on Russia and ban the importation of oil from the country. Seventeen members of Congress, overwhelmingly Republicans, voted against that measure.

Belarus, though not the primary aggressor in the conflict, is a close ally of Moscow and has allowed its territory […]

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