It wasn’t just Engel who rejected Rohrabacher’s amendment. Rep. Gerald Connolly from Virginia said, “I felt listening to [Rohrabacher] like I was watching RT,” Russia’s international propaganda outlet. Rep. David Cicilline from Rhode Island said, “To allow the Russian government any modicum of influence over this legislation, including its name, would be shameful and would dishonor the work of Mr. Magnitsky.” Several others, Republicans and Democrats, chimed in with similar sentiments. Rohrabacher was allowed to speak again, and he made a last-ditch effort to muddy the waters, but it didn’t
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