WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The Senate Finance Committee issued the following news release:
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the top Democrats on the Senate Finance and Banking committees, questioned why the Trump Administration welcomed Russia's sanctioned Finance Minister to a top-level economic summit in North Carolina at the end of August, in conflict with the U.S. policy of isolating Russia for its illegal and brutal war on Ukraine.
Although U.S. law requires the Treasury Secretary to take steps to exclude Russian officials from participation in key international finance bodies, including the G20, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov attended the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in As...