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emulatorloo

(45,570 posts)
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 04:01 PM Jan 2019

Has anybody asked Grassley why he was so eager to lift sanctions on Oleg Deripaska?

I’m no longer a full time Iowa resident and am no longer registered to vote here, so he doesn’t answer my emails.

Just curious what justifications he might have given for rewarding one of Putin’s point persons on Russian Interference in the 2016 elections

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Has anybody asked Grassley why he was so eager to lift sanctions on Oleg Deripaska? (Original Post) emulatorloo Jan 2019 OP
Sen Ernst Monday at 5 p.m. at the Red Oak National Guard Armory at 2001 G Avenue IADEMO2004 Jan 2019 #1
I sent her an email a while back on Deripaska rurallib Jan 2019 #2
She said his companies met the standard of the sanction law. cough (BS) cough IADEMO2004 Jan 2019 #3

IADEMO2004

(5,885 posts)
1. Sen Ernst Monday at 5 p.m. at the Red Oak National Guard Armory at 2001 G Avenue
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 04:06 PM
Jan 2019
http://www.kmaland.com/news/ernst-returns-to-red-oak-next-week/article_4affb2ae-1a9a-11e9-a97b-53c31c009ca9.html

The senator's town hall meeting is open to the public.

Ernst's annual 99-county tour of Iowa begins with a town hall meeting in Red Oak Monday at 5 p.m. at the Red Oak National Guard Armory at 2001 G Avenue. Due to the continuing partial government shutdown, the Red Oak Republican would return to Washington if a vote in the U.S. Senate was necessary. In a recent conference call with reporters, Ernst stated she believes Congress should stay in session during the shutdown, and recalled her previous legislation designed to keep congressional representatives in Washington if a federal budget or important appropriations to keep the government operating aren't approved in a timely manner.

"This is not new for me," she said. "This is something I feel very strongly about. And, because we did cancel our August recess last year, at a time when we would have left for that August break, we only had about 12% of the government funded at that time. And, because I pushed for actions, and members of my class pushed for further action during August, we ended up staying in Washington, D.C. By the time we got done with August, a little over 75% of our government was funded."

rurallib

(63,207 posts)
2. I sent her an email a while back on Deripaska
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 05:47 PM
Jan 2019

today I got a response saying she supports our troops.

WTF?

IADEMO2004

(5,885 posts)
3. She said his companies met the standard of the sanction law. cough (BS) cough
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 06:11 PM
Jan 2019

I don't have word for word reply something like that and support the pResident OF COURSE!!

She reeks of trump. Accessory after the fact.

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