week ahead in congress rachel oswald spoke about the week ahead in congress, including a debate on iran sanctions. host: are these sanctions on iran new and why do senators in both parties feel they're necessary now? reporter: these senators are coming after there was a big desire last year to impose sanctions. when as you remember iran carried out a spate of medium ballistic missile tests. president obama was in office at the time and he strongly pushed against democrats from pushing sanctions now. with him out of the office, that weight is now lifting. these are new sanctions. they're sanctions that would require the sanctioning of anybody directly and indirectly involved with

iran's ballistic missile program. there are also new sanctions that would be imposed on the iranian revolutionary guard core for their support of regionally desablizing activities and terrorism. host: in your recent article at cq.com on this iran sanctions bill that's coming up, you also write about likely russian saxes -- a likely russian sanctions amendment, unrelated, that could come up on this bill. why now? reporter: these sanctions are as a response to the 2016 election interference. democrats introduced a bill with considerable republican support back in january. and it's taken this long for them to build up enough support to move the sanctions forward. these sanctions would codify existing executive branch sanctions, making it difficult for a president -- for president trump to remove the sanctions without the support of congress. they would also impose new sanctions attacking, for bidding any foreign -- forbidding any foreign investment in russia's energy sector, forbidding the sale of potentially -- purchases of iranian sovereign debt. and

making it illegal to purchase privatized russian -- former russian state assets. host: why would they be attached to this iran sanctions bill and not brought up as a separate measure? reporter: i think democrats saw an opening. when this iran bill was brought up and democrats -- there's enough support to clear a cloture vote for this bill. democrats saw an opportunity to , in order to get their support for the iran bill, to require republicans to at least allow a vote on the russia sanctions. host: lastly in your cq article, you write about senator corker likely being convinced to take up the russia piece to this. who's taking the lead on the democratic and republican sides? who is really pushing this russian measure? reporter: the leaders are benjamin cardin, armed services chairman john mccain, bob corker, and then from the banking committee, the chairman, mike crapo, and the

ranking member, brown. host: rachel oswald recovers national security issues for cq roll call. read her work at cq.com. she's also on twitter. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, arisa industry's committee james geten discusses how the republican health care reform legislation might impact employer health care insurance plans. and then the week ahead for congress and the white house. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal." coming up at 7:00 a.m. this morning. join the discussion. >> today defense secretary james mad yosm and james did

ou knowford testifies on the pentagon's budget request. >> in case you missed it on c-span retired brigadier general calway on the possible threat of clage on national security. >> you go back to older field there's one that said weather and terrain are the most significant aspects of battlefield combat, whether it is the runways that have to be open so you can land on there's weather and terrain them, the open seas or the hill you're going to climb. when they're in change the military is concerned about that. so the military has long had an interest in dealing with things ke this and forecasting what ight happen.

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