Sens. Bob Menendez and Jim Risch, the two top senators on the Foreign Relations Committee, said Sunday they are confident they will get a bipartisan deal on Russian sanctions when the Senate comes back from recess
"I believe that we will get there," Menendez told CNN's Dana Bash on"State of the Union.""We have been working in good faith. We've been accommodating different views and we are committed, jointly, in a bipartisan way to defend Ukraine and to send Putin the message: it'll be bluntly and consequential.
"But look, there's been something happened on the ground that is changed the dynamics and open the door, really, for us to reach agreement on that and that is that the Germans have signaled that they are suspending, pausing if you would, certification, thus completion of the pipeline for six months."He added:"That's going to be the last T crossed, I dotted before we put the ball across the finish line.
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