{"id":1214698,"date":"2022-01-13T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214698"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:34:21","slug":"senate-democrats-block-bipartisan-nord-stream-2-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-block-bipartisan-nord-stream-2-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Block Bipartisan Nord Stream 2 Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-democrats-block-bipartisan-nord-stream-2-sanctions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214698&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate Democrats garnered enough votes Thursday to block a bipartisan bill reimposing sanctions on the Russian pipeline Nord Stream 2 from being sent to the House for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>While 55 senators voted in favor of the bill, it failed to surpass the 60-vote threshold required to pass. The legislation, the Protecting Europe\u2019s Energy Security Implementation Act, received a floor vote after its sponsor, Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/national-security-daily\/2022\/01\/03\/how-dems-could-sabotage-cruzs-nord-stream-2-gambit-495573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreed<\/a> to release several administration nominations he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/sen-cruz-biden-administration-is-enabling-putin-to-complete-construction-of-nord-stream-2-pipeline\">blocked<\/a> over the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to President Biden\u2019s catastrophic surrender and waiving of the mandatory sanctions passed by Congress, (Russian President Vladimir Putin) sees Nord Stream 2 as an alternate route to get his gas to Europe that Ukraine cannot touch,\u201d Cruz said on the Senate floor prior to the vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor two years, this body has had bipartisan consensus and unanimity on standing up to Russia on stopping Nord Stream 2,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cIt is only with a Democrat in the White House that suddenly scores of Democrats have decided partisan loyalty is more important than standing up to Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz noted that the European parliament voted 525-50 to condemn and shut down the pipeline. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/08\/joe-biden-nord-stream-2-russia-ukraine-energy-policy\/\">(RELATED: ANALYSIS: Biden\u2019s Nord Stream 2 Move Opens The Door To A Russian Invasion Into Ukraine)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/nord-stream-2-and-european-energy-security\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;the U.S. would&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/18\/joe-biden-nord-stream-2-russia-vladimir-putin-antony-blinken\/\">waive sanctions<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/07\/12\/russia-germany-trump-pipeline\/\">placed<\/a>&nbsp;on the pipeline by former President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/21\/nord-stream-2-joe-biden-mike-pompeo-germany-russia-ukraine\/\">gave a stamp of approval<\/a> to the $11 billion project, operated by the Russian state-run firm Gazprom, in July after a meeting with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7352430\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7352430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joe Biden make brief remarks to the press before a meeting on July 15. (Doug Mills\/Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Senate overwhelmingly approved similar sanctions in 2019. One of the 2019 sanctions bill\u2019s co-sponsors, Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, voted against Cruz\u2019s bill Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point it\u2019s very important, as we\u2019re looking at potential Russian action in Ukraine, for us to work very closely with our allies, and Germany is one of those very important allies,\u201d the New Hampshire senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/nord-stream-2-pipeline-in-the-senate-russia-ted-cruz-chuck-schumer-vladimir-putin-joe-biden-11641852884\">said<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Several other Democratic lawmakers who supported the bill previously also came out in opposition to it this week. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Menendez said passing the bill would work against ongoing talks between U.S. and Russian diplomats during a speech before the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who opposed sanctions in 2019, was the sole Republican to vote against Cruz\u2019s legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpponents of the pipeline, not surprisingly, are largely from states that compete in the sale of natural gas,\u201d Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/nord-stream-sanctions-are-not-about-security\/\">wrote<\/a> in an op-ed published by The American Conservative on Monday. \u201cAcknowledging that this debate is only superficially about national security and really more about provincial protectionism helps us better understand the dynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several Democrats, including Sens. Tammy Baldwin, Catherine Cortez Masto and Raphael Warnock, voted alongside Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the pipeline, which travels directly from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea, was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/10\/russia-gas-pipeline-nord-stream-2-trump-biden\/\">completed<\/a>&nbsp;in September 2021, but the German government has yet to give the final green light for the project to come online.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats garnered enough votes Thursday to block a bipartisan bill reimposing sanctions on the Russian pipeline Nord Stream 2 from being sent to the House for consideration.While 55 senators &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}