Nine Democrats Have Signed. We Need Fourteen More
Call Your Representative This Week. Say The Bill Number.
By Jed Sunden
Founder, American Ukraine Committee
September 1, 2026
Congress came back on September 1.
H.R. 10076, the Russia and Iran sanctions bill, has eighteen cosponsors in the House. Nine Republicans. Nine Democrats.
Nine is not enough. The bill needs roughly fourteen more Democrats to be passable. That is the whole ask, and we have about three weeks to get it.
Start With The Deadline
The Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 expires on December 31. Most of the American sanctions architecture on Iran rests on that statute. No other bill moving in Congress extends it. H.R. 10076 carries it to 2031.
The same bill sanctions Russian energy revenue, the banks that clear it and the tanker fleet that moves it. It blocks the President from lifting those sanctions until Russia signs an agreement Ukraine accepts. The Senate passed it 86–11 on August 7.
Eighty-Seven
Democrats Already Signed This Bill
Not this bill number. The same sanctions text, under an earlier one.
Eighty-seven House Democrats cosponsored H.R. 2548. Sixty-seven cosponsored H.R. 6856. Then it was reintroduced on August 10, during recess, with Washington empty, as H.R. 10076. Nobody withdrew. Nobody changed their mind. The roster just never followed the new number.
So stop treating this as persuasion. It is paperwork nobody has done. Your representative may already be on record. Ask them to sign it again.
Find Your Representative in One of These Five Buckets
Then use the argument that fits. Use one. Not five.
1. Pro-Ukraine.
Ukraine Caucus, long record, no convincing required.
Say this: "You cosponsored this text under H.R. 2548. It is H.R. 10076 now. Please sign it again."
Do not explain the war to them. Give them the number and a reason it is urgent.
2. Pro-Israel.
Members who lead on Iran.
Say this: "The Iran Sanctions Act expires December 31, and this is the only bill extending it."
Do not mention Ukraine unless they do. Since July, Russia has shipped drone components, ammunition and explosives to Iran across the Caspian, paid for with energy revenue. One supply chain, not two theaters.
3. Energy-Producing Districts.
Gulf Coast terminals, ports, building trades.
Say this:"Every cargo Russia cannot sell into Europe is demand that lands in an American terminal."
Europe took a record 10.3 billion cubic feet a day of U.S. LNG last year, and four of the five export projects under construction are in Texas. Lead with the jobs. Ukraine is the third paragraph, or it never comes up at all.
4. National Security.
Veterans, Armed Services, Intelligence.
Say this: "There is no appropriation in this bill and no force authorization. It cuts revenue."
Say what it is not, first. Most of these members filed this next to the aid fights, and getting it out of that file is most of the work. Cutting Russian energy revenue costs no American money and puts no American forces anywhere.
5. Jurisdiction.
Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Financial Services.
Say this: "You are handling this bill either way. Being on it early beats reacting to it at markup."
These offices deal with the text whether or not their member cosponsors. Early names shape what the final bill looks like.
The Objection You Will Hear
The bill also authorizes secondary tariffs on countries still buying Russian energy. That is what the eleven Senate no votes were about, not the sanctions. Senators Paul and Wyden tried to strip that title and failed. House negotiators are narrowing it now.
If a staffer raises it, say you know. Then say that members who want it narrowed have more leverage as cosponsors than as spectators.
Do This Today
Call your representative. Ninety seconds.
Say you are a constituent. Give your town.
Say the bill number out loud — H.R. 10076. Offices log contacts by bill. "Sanction Russia" gets logged as nothing.
Ask who handles foreign policy in the office. Write the name down.
Then tell us what they said. Email info@amukr.org and we will send you the right staffer's name instead of a general inbox.
Want the full target list,
the letters we have already drafted, or help organizing your community?
It is all at amukr.org. The votes exist.
They are on paper, under two other bill numbers. Somebody has to ask.
Write to us, and we will send you the materials. Everyone who emails info@amukr.org after making the call receives the H.R. 10076 slide deck and the one-page bill memo, along with the name of the staffer who handles foreign policy in their representative's office. Take the deck to a community meeting, a church group, or a district office visit. Send the memo ahead of a scheduled call.
Sources. The bill analysis in these materials draws on the H.R. 10076 advocacy FAQ prepared by the American Coalition for Ukraine (ACU) and on the H.R. 10076 bill summary published by Razom for Ukraine on August 20, 2026. We are grateful to both organizations for their work on this legislation.
The American Ukraine Committee is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization. American Ukraine PAC is a separate entity.