WASHINGTON (Dispatches) -- U.S. Republicans and Democrats have reached agreement on legislation that allows new sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, leading congressional Democrats said on Saturday, in a bill that would limit any potential effort by President Donald Trump to try to lift sanctions against Moscow.
In mid-June, the Senate overwhelmingly passed tough sanctions on Moscow and Tehran, but the text stalled in the House of Representatives after Republicans proposed including North Korea sanctions in the bill, until agreement was reached on Saturday.
The House is set to vote on Tuesday on a package of bills on sanctions covering Russia, Iran and North Korea, according to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office.  
"The legislation ensures that both the majority and minority are able to exercise our oversight role over the administration's implementation of sanctions."
 The sanctions bill "will hold Russia and Iran accountable for their destabilizing actions around the world," Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland said.  
Lawmakers are looking to approve the sanctions before leaving Washington for the August recess.
The Trump administration "supports” the current version of the sanctions bill, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
"The original piece of legislation was poorly written but we were able to work with the House and Senate. And the administration is happy with the ability to do that and make those changes that were necessary,” Sanders said on ABC’s "This Week.” "We support where the legislation is now.”
The EU warned the U.S. against unilateral tightening of sanctions against Russia and Russia and said that Washington's actions were "driven primarily by domestic considerations."
"We are concerned the measures discussed in the U.S. Congress could have unintended consequences, not only when it comes to Transatlantic/G7 unity, but also on EU economic and energy security interests,” Reuters quoted a statement by a representative of the European Commission as saying.
Earlier, Germany and Austria had strongly criticized U.S. plans to impose sanctions on the European companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline and threatened to retaliate.
"We understand that the Russia/Iran sanctions bill is driven primarily by domestic considerations," the statement said.