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US Congressional committee passes bill that could sanction Qatar:<\/strong> Qatar got a slap from the US Congress on Wednesday when the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bill that would sanction countries which finance terrorism, the Associated Press reports<\/a>. In an apparent show of support to the Arab Quartet blockading Qatar, the Republican-led committee issued a scathing rebuke of the pariah state, particularly its support of Hamas. The legislation cited a March 2014 Treasury Department report that said Qatar \"has for many years openly financed Hamas.\" What a waste of lobbying money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US Congressional committee passes bill that could sanction Qatar: Qatar got a slap from the US Congress on Wednesday when the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bill that would sanction countries which finance terrorism, the Associated Press reports. In an apparent show of support to the Arab Quartet blockading Qatar, the Republican-led committee issued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8572],"tags":[72,2380],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-637465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"ac50ba2a-5a04-434b-92c8-9afd90ec2a7f","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"361384b8-edb2-4a25-8f4a-97f8ff3e7022","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[637449],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nUS Congressional committee passes bill that could sanction Qatar - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/11\/16\/us-congressional-committee-passes-bill-that-could-sanction-qatar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Congressional committee passes bill that could sanction Qatar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US Congressional committee passes bill that could sanction Qatar: Qatar got a slap from the US Congress on Wednesday when the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bill that would sanction countries which finance terrorism, the Associated Press reports. 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