As President Biden and Europeans avoid removing Russian banks that deal in oil from the international SWIFT banking system, there is a growing bipartisan call in Congress to ban Russian oil.
Republicans have been making similar comments for weeks. But some Democrats are now urging the administration to consider that course of action too, as Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutal assault on Ukraine intensifies.
President Biden waves as he and first lady Jill Biden board Air Force One, Wednesday, March 2, 2022, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. "The lesson from this should be what John McCain was trying to teach us a decade ago, which is that Russia is an oil and gas state," Khanna said. "That Europe and America should have never been as dependent on Russian oil and gas and it should make an investment in renewable energy, in nuclear, in batteries a national security imperative." Sen.
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