Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is teasing a series of votes punishing Russia for the war in Ukraine , calling legislation that cleared a key Senate panel this week part of a “toolbox” of options meant to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.

“There may be a point here where we have a ‘Russia week’ where we just end up doing some of this stuff on the floor,” Thune told the Washington Examiner in a Wednesday sit-down interview, mentioning two bills that passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the same day.

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