late december signed off on a relaxation of the sanctions, under law, under a beefed-up law beefed up by the house and senate in 2017 passed with veto proof majorities despite president trump objecting to it, under that new u.s. sanctions law, congress has 30 days to review an announcement like this, review any announcement fromm the aadministration they relaxes sanctions. congress can investigate and overturn it if they think it is improper and that is what led to this appearance today on capitol hill by the treasury secretary and as you can quickly tell from the reaction from members of congress coming out of the classifi classified briefing, secretary mnuchin s explanation why he wants to drop the sanctions on the russian oligarch did not go well. i m very dissat tisisfied b