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“last year, Congress passed the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which imposed tough new sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea. There was broad bipartisan agreement on the need to put these enhanced sanctions into place. The legislation passed in the Senate by a vote of 98 to 2 and in the House by a vote of 419 to 3. In combining both Chambers, the vote was 517 to 5 in favor of enacting these sanctions. The legislation passed with a veto-proof, broad, bipartisan majority. It can be very difficult to get 500 Members of Congress to agree on anything, but imposing sanctions on Vladimir Putin's cronies and those who do business with him should be a no-brainer. Just last week, we learned that the Trump administration had chosen not to enact these sanctions. Yet, on the same day that the Trump administration argued the sanctions were not necessary, President Trump's own CIA Director said that Russia will continue to attack our democracy. He said: ``This threat is not going to go away. The Russians have been at this a long time, and I fully expect they'll continue to be at it.'' In January 2017, the CIA assessed: ``Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. Presidential election.'' In January of 2018, the CIA Director confirmed he believes that Russia will continue to assault the 2018 elections.…”