在众议院、参议院和白宫就该问题反复协商数月却几乎没有进展后，两名众议院共和党人可能很快会推动全院投票，就对俄罗斯制裁乌克兰战争的问题进行表决。
内布拉斯加州共和党众议员唐·培根(Don Bacon)告诉福克斯新闻数字版：“下周，布莱恩·菲茨帕特里克(Brian Fitzpatrick)的制裁法案……将成熟，因此我们可以在周一或周二提交作为一项强制动议（discharge petition），我会签署它。”
他补充道：“但这需要从头开始。我们需要获得218个签名，这还有很多工作要做，但这是布莱恩在两党共同努力下制定的一部非常好的法案。我认为它在参议院也可能获得支持。”
强制动议是一种在众议院多数党领袖反对的情况下迫使对立法进行表决的机制。历史上，这种措施很少被使用，因为该动议需要众议院议员多数的签名，而执政党成员传统上对以这种方式违抗其领袖持谨慎态度。
但对培根来说，这是一个关乎是非的问题，他认为这一问题将在未来几年被铭记。
培根说：“有一天在历史书上，会记载哪些领导人挺身而出，哪些是温斯顿·丘吉尔式的人物，哪些是内维尔·张伯伦式的人物。张伯伦为安抚希特勒而放弃了捷克斯洛伐克的领土。而希特勒说他只想要苏台德地区。一年后，他入侵了捷克斯洛伐克的其余地区。一年后，他入侵了波兰。”
“我们必须认清一个坏人，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京就是个坏人。他明确表示，这不仅仅是关于乌克兰的问题。他想要夺回苏联的其他领土。历史正在被书写，我希望站在正确的一边。我希望每个共和党人都能如此。”
菲茨帕特里克在去年12月提出了一项法案，旨在如果俄罗斯拒绝与乌克兰谈判和平协议或违反任何可能达成的现有和平协议，就对俄罗斯联邦实施制裁。
周二最新的国会记录显示，菲茨帕特里克提出了一项旨在快速将该法案提交至众议院全体会议的决议。他的办公室未回应采访请求。
然而，一位熟悉议员们计划的消息人士告诉福克斯新闻数字版，菲茨帕特里克和培根将给众议院共和党领袖“最后一次机会”，就俄罗斯制裁举行投票。消息人士还表示，菲茨帕特里克也在直接与白宫就众议院对该措施的投票进行沟通。
福克斯新闻数字版已联系白宫寻求置评。
路易斯安那州共和党众议长迈克·约翰逊(Mike Johnson)多次表示，他支持对俄罗斯在乌克兰的战争实施制裁，但任何制裁法案必须由参议院提出。然而，南达科他州共和党参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩(John Thune)今年早些时候表示，该程序必须从众议院开始。
特朗普政府已经对俄罗斯实体实施了一些制裁，主要针对其庞大的石油和天然气行业，但乌克兰支持者表示，这些制裁不足以显著削弱莫斯科的战争机器。
康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔(Richard Blumenthal)正在领导参议院的制裁工作，他告诉Semafor，国会仍在等待唐纳德·特朗普总统的批准。
培根也承认，强制动议本质上是一场艰难的战斗，他告诉福克斯新闻数字版：“有两件事对我们不利。
他指出众议院共和党人占少数以及特朗普的影响力，“第一，你知道，多数党成员提出强制动议并不常见，因为我们拥有多数席位，但我也知道迈克·约翰逊所处的政治现实。”“第二，我知道很多人不想反对特朗普总统，但我认为他在这方面做得不够。
“我的意思是，前总统拜登在乌克兰-俄罗斯问题上态度软弱。我是说，他提供了大量援助，但总是迟缓、迟到……而且他们有交战规则。他试图让乌克兰一只手被绑在背后作战，但我发现特朗普做得甚至更少。当你看我们提供的援助金额时，只有拜登时期的1%。当然，我知道他正在向北约国家出售武器，而它们正在把这些武器提供给乌克兰，但我们本可以做得更多。”
但他对强制动议和另一项类似的向乌克兰提供更多援助的法案（他和菲茨帕特里克都与民主党人共同支持）能获得足够的共和党支持以成功通过表示乐观。由纽约州民主党众议员格雷戈里·米克斯(Gregory Meeks)领导的民主党法案只需要再获得一个共和党人的签名就能迫使进行投票。
培根说：“我们有一名共和党人立场未定，正在考虑，还有一名想等到初选结束。所以，我们可能需要一两个月。但我希望明天就能解决。乌克兰人每天都在牺牲。对我来说，尽快完成这项工作的必要性非常清楚。”
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A pair of House Republicans could soon mount an effort to force a chamber-wide vote on sanctioning Russia for its war in Ukraine after months of back-and-forth between the House, Senate and White House yielded little movement on the issue.
“This coming week, Brian Fitzpatrick’s sanctions bill … ripens, so we can actually submit it as a discharge petition on Monday or Tuesday, and I’ll sign that,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., told Fox News Digital.
“But it’s got to start from scratch,” he added. “We’ve got to get 218 signatures on it, and so that has a lot more work to do there, but it’s a really good bill that Brian has worked on both sides of the aisle to get it right. And I think it’s one that could have support in the Senate.”
A discharge petition is a mechanism for forcing a vote on legislation over the objections of House majority leadership. Historically, they’re a rarely used measure given the petition needs signatures from a majority of House lawmakers, and most members of the party in power are traditionally wary of crossing their leaders in that way.
But for Bacon, it’s a matter of right versus wrong that he believes will be remembered for years to come.
“Someday in the history books, it’s going to read which leaders stood up, which ones were Winston Churchills and which ones were Neville Chamberlains. Chamberlain gave away land in Czechoslovakia to appease Hitler. And Hitler said all he wanted was the Sudetenland. And then, a year later, he invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia. Then, a year later, he invaded Poland,” Bacon said.
“We’ve got to know a bad guy when we see one, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. He’s made clear, it’s not just about Ukraine. He wants to regain the rest of what the Soviet Union had. And so history is being written, and I want to be on the right side. I hope every Republican does.”
Fitzpatrick introduced a bill in December aimed at sanctioning the Russian Federation if it refuses to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine or violates any existing peace agreement that may have been instituted.
The latest congressional record, dated Tuesday, appears to show Fitzpatrick introduced a resolution geared toward fast-tracking that bill onto the floor. His office did not respond to requests for an interview.
A source familiar with the lawmakers’ planning told Fox News Digital, however, that he and Bacon would give House GOP leaders “one last chance” to hold a vote on Russia sanctions. The source said Fitzpatrick was also directly communicating with the White House regarding a House vote on the measure.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has said on multiple occasions he supports sanctioning Russia for its war on Ukraine but that any sanctions bill must originate in the Senate. However, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said earlier this year that the process must start in the House.
The Trump administration has already imposed some sanctions on Russian entities, primarily targeting its vast oil and gas sector, but Ukraine advocates have said it’s not enough to significantly hamstring Moscow’s war machine.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who is leading the sanctions effort in the Senate, told Semafor that Congress was still waiting on the green light from President Donald Trump.
Bacon also acknowledged that a discharge petition is inherently an uphill battle, telling Fox News Digital, “There’s two things working against us.
“One, you know, it’s not normal for members of the majority to do a discharge petition because we have the majority, but I also know the political realities that Mike Johnson is under,” Bacon said, noting the slim House GOP majority and Trump’s influence. “Second, I know a lot of folks don’t want to get in front of President Trump, but I think he’s failing in this area.
“I mean, former President Joe Biden was weak on Ukraine-Russia. I mean he sent a lot of aid. It was always late, tardy … and they had rules of engagement. He was trying to make Ukraine fight with one arm tied behind its back, but I find Trump has done even less. When you look at the amount of aid that we’ve provided, it’s like 1% of what we were doing under Biden. Now, granted, I know he’s selling weapons to NATO countries, and they’re giving it to Ukraine, but we should be doing so much more.”
But he sounded optimistic that the discharge petition — and another similar measure on sending more aid to Ukraine that both he and Fitzpatrick have joined Democrats on — will get enough GOP support to prevail. The Democrats’ bill, led by Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., needs just one more GOP signature to force a vote.
“We’ve got one [Republican] on the fence, thinking about it, and we have one that wants to wait until the primary is done. So, we’re talking a month or two months. But I wish we had it tomorrow. Ukrainians are dying every day. And so, to me, the necessity of getting this done soon is very clear to me,” Bacon said.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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