Top Senate Dems demand report from Trump on UK nerve agent attack
Source: The Hill
BY OLIVIA BEAVERS - 03/23/18 02:21 PM EDT
A group of top Democratic senators formally requested on Friday that President Trump provide Congress with a full report about the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom.
The lawmakers, who all sit on key national security committees, say that Trump should impose sanctions on the Kremlin if the U.S. concludes that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a chemical weapon.
“We formally request a determination of whether a foreign government has used lethal chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law and a report to Congress analyzing the attack,” the senators wrote in a Friday letter addressed to the president.
Senators who serves as the top Democrats on five different Senate committees signed the letter, including Foreign Relations Committee’s Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Judiciary Committee’s Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Appropriations Committee’s Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Armed Services Committee’s Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Intelligence Committee’s Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va). Sen. Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) also signed the letter.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/international/379966-top-dem-senators-ask-trump-to-provide-congress-with-report-on-uk-nerve
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