The Senate on Wednesday evening took another step closer to advancing a bill that would impose long-stalled sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine and extend for five more years sanctions on Iran. On Tuesday, Senate champions of the sanctions package unveiled a substitute amendment that will form the contents of the bill. House outlookIt is not clear yet whether the House, after its return in September, will consider the Senate bill or a modified version of it. The House passed in early June a Russia sanctions measure of its own, which would also authorize spending more U.S. money arming Ukraine, funds that would have to be appropriated. “I’m very hopeful, because it meets all of the goals that we have in common” with the House advocates of Russia sanctions, Blumenthal said of his sanctions bill.