An influential group of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators will
file sweeping legislation on Wednesday to address the crisis in
Venezuela, including sanctioning individuals responsible for undermining
democracy or involved in corruption, Senate aides told Reuters.
The bill would provide $10 million in
humanitarian aid to the struggling country, require the State Department
to coordinate a regional effort to ease the crisis, and ask U.S.
intelligence to report on the involvement of Venezuelan government
officials in corruption and the drug trade, according to a copy seen by
Reuters.
It also calls on President Donald Trump to
take all necessary steps to prevent Rosneft, Russia's state oil company,
from gaining control of any U.S. energy infrastructure.
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