Putin, Russia put on notice as Senate takes crucial step to grind down the Kremlin’s war machine

The Senate took its first major step in fulfilling one of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s biggest desires: levying bone-crushing sanctions against Russia. A bipartisan swell carried the sanctions package through its first hurdle, which has gone through several iterations in the time since it was first formulated by Graham and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. "The basic, core function of the bill is to stop purchases of Russian oil and gas from fueling Putin’s war machine, and we're at a really pi