Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026

Division A requires the President to block the property of, and deny visas to, the President of the Russian Federation and other senior Russian officials, and any foreign person the President finds is supplying Russia's defense industry, running or insuring vessels that move Russian oil to evade sanctions, or acting to undermine Ukraine, with a fresh review every 180 days. It requires sanctions on the Bank of Russia and on Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank and every other Russian financial institution owned in whole or in part by the Russian government, and on foreign banks that do significant business with them unless the Treasury finds that against United States interests. It bars United States persons from dealing with those Russian banks. Thirty days after enactment it bars new United States investment in Russia and in its energy sector and bars exports of United States energy to Russia; purchases of Russian government debt are barred on enactment. United States persons acting under Treasury licenses issued before enactment are exempt, and companies winding down or selling operations in Russia have 270 days. It requires the President to raise duties on all goods from Russia to a rate of up to 500 percent, and on goods from a country among the five largest importers of Russian crude oil or natural gas that keeps buying it, or among the top five countries facilitating Russian oil sanctions evasion, to a rate of up to 100 percent, with an exception for a smaller gas buyer that has taken significant steps to cut its imports. Exemptions include transactions for food, farm goods, medicine, medical devices and humanitarian aid, NASA activities and official government business. The President may waive any sanction or duty by certifying to Congress that it is in the national interest. Permanently ending a sanction or duty on Russia or a Russian person requires certifying that Russia signed a peace agreement accepted by Ukraine and stopped its hostilities, and a joint resolution of disapproval enacted within 30 days, or 60 if the report arrives between July 10 and September 7, blocks it. Division A ends five years after enactment, except its extension of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 from 2026 to 2031. Division B lets early childhood educators, including those at childcare facilities, claim the educator expense deduction that had been limited to kindergarten through grade 12 educators, starting with 2026 tax years.

At least 34 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 38 quarterly reports filed by 7 lobbying firms and by 29 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Louisiana Energy Services, LLC dba Urenco USA; International Paper; Bwx Technologies Inc; Family Research Council; American Apparel & Footwear Association. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 29 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.