WASHINGTON, April 2 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, joined U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), and 22 of their Senate colleagues in a letter pressing President Trump on his decision to ease sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil exports and the lack of planning regarding the economic fallout of his unauthorized war against Iran. Since the war began, the price of U.S. crude oil has risen by more than 50 percent, and the average price of gasoline has increased by more than a dollar per gallon largely due to Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz- an outcome experts had warned the President an...