The Republican majority of the House of Representatives has slowed down the voting on sanctions against Russia, which the Senate previously approved, RIA Novosti reported. Supporters of sanctions hoped for a quick ballot, but by a majority vote the bill was sent for revision to the Foreign Affairs Committee. If the House of Representatives changes the bill and accepts it in a new form, it will have a political bargaining with the Senate to agree on the text, the agency reports..

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last week that the codification of sanctions envisaged in the bill would deprive the administration of the necessary flexibility in the diplomatic approach to Moscow. A similar position was held by the previous administration of Barack Obama, despite the fact that Obama was the initiator of the introduction of sanctions.

Earlier, the US Senate approved new sanctions against Russia and Iran in 98 votes against two. Anti-Russian measures came as an amendment to the bill on Iran to speed up their passage and deprive President Donald Trump of the opportunity to refuse to sign the bill.

The project proposes to reduce the maximum period of market financing for Russian banks under sanctions of up to 14 days, oil and gas companies - up to 30 days.

In addition, the draft law suggests that the president may impose sanctions on persons who intend to invest more than $ 5 million in the construction of Russian export pipelines for a year or a million dollars at a time, or provide services, technologies, and information support to projects.

A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that Washington's next aspirations to introduce restrictive measures against Moscow could turn into a new sanctions peak.