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   From: peederphiles@sfmayor.org   
      
   Minutes after President Barack Obama announced a new round of   
   sanctions against officials and allies of the Russian   
   government, Russia countered with its own set of entry bans   
   against nine American officials.   
      
   The list of those sanctioned includes House Speaker John   
   Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Foreign   
   Relations Committee chief Bob Menendez and top Republican Sen.   
   John McCain of Arizona.   
      
   Also named are White House advisers Ben Rhodes, Caroline   
   Atkinson and Dan Pfeiffer as well as senators Mary Landrieu, D-   
   La., and Dan Coats, R-Ind.   
      
   “We have repeatedly warned that the use of sanctions instruments   
   - double-edged things - boomerang on the United States itself,”   
   the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.   
      
   Those targeted in the United States appeared to be anything but   
   dismayed by their inclusion on the Russian sanctions list.   
      
   "The Speaker is proud to be included on a list of those willing   
   to stand against Putin's aggression,” Boehner spokesman Michael   
   Steel said in a statement.   
      
   McCain tweeted a similar sentiment.   
      
   http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/russia-bans-nine-   
   americans-after-obama-expands-sanctions-n57796   
      
         
      
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