Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025
Official title: A bill to impose sanctions and other measures with respect to the Russian Federation if the Government of the Russian Federation refuses to negotiate a peace a… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: A bill to impose sanctions and other measures with respect to the Russian Federation if the Government of the Russian Federation refuses to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine, violates any such agreement, or initiates another military invasion of Ukraine, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025
This bill imposes penalties on certain persons (individuals and entities) if the President determines that the Russian government or a person acting at Russia's direction is involved with (1) refusing to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine; (2) violating a negotiated peace agreement; (3) initiating another invasion of Ukraine; or (4) overthrowing, dismantling, or seeking to subvert the Ukrainian government.
If the President makes such a determination, the bill requires certain actions including
- the President must impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on specified persons such as the Russian president, certain Russian military commanders, and any foreign person that knowingly provides defense items to the Russian armed forces;
- the President must increase the rate of duty on all goods and services imported from Russia into the United States to at least 500% relative to the value of such goods and services;
- the President must increase the rate of duty on all goods and services imported into the United States from countries that knowingly engage in the exchange of Russian-origin uranium and petroleum products to at least 500% relative to the value of such goods and services;
- the Department of the Treasury must impose property-blocking sanctions on any financial institution organized under Russian law and owned wholly or partly by Russia, and any financial institution that engages in transactions with those entities; and
- the Department of Commerce must prohibit the export, reexport, or in-country transfer to or in Russia of any U.S.-produced energy or energy product.
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- CITIGROUP WASHINGTON, INC.
- CITIGROUP WASHINGTON, INC.
- CONSTELLATION ENERGY GENERATION, LLC
- NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE, INC.
- CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
- KLEIN/JOHNSON GROUP
Bodies those filers lobbied
- SENATE
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Energy, Dept of
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
- White House Office
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Treasury, Dept of
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1241: Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1241/
"S. 1241: Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1241/.
S. 1241, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1241/.
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