House passes Russia and Iran sanctions bill, sending it to the President
The House on September 16, 2026, voted 262 to 159 to pass the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, a package of sanctions and tariffs targeting Russia and Iran. The Senate passed the bill 86 to 11 on August 7, 2026. The bill now goes to the President.
The bill would require the President, within 30 days of enactment, to raise the tariff on all goods imported from Russia — including oil, natural gas, petroleum products, and coal — to as much as 500 percent. It would also authorize duties of up to 100 percent on goods from countries that keep buying Russian crude oil or natural gas or that help evade sanctions.
Other sections would block property and transactions tied to the Russian government, bar transfers of funds to or from it, prohibit new U.S. investment in Russia and its energy sector, and prohibit Russian government-affiliated entities from being listed on U.S. securities exchanges. The bill would also extend the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 through 2031.
The House took up the bill under terms that allowed no amendments, only an up-or-down vote to agree to the Senate's version. Before it reached the floor, House Democrats had sought changes that were turned down in the Rules Committee on party-line votes. Representative Gregory Meeks proposed striking the provision authorizing secondary tariffs, and Representative Steny Hoyer proposed specifying which countries would be subject to tariffs for buying Russian oil or gas; both were rejected 3 to 7. A further proposal by Meeks would have allowed sanctions on Russia and its enablers to be waived only when doing so was “vital to the national security of the United States”; it was also rejected 3 to 7.
The measure is named for the late Senator Lindsey O. Graham.
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