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Senate votes down Sanders resolutions to block $9b in Israel arms sales
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“No one in the world is coming to the support of Hamas,” Sen. Jim Risch said. “No one with the exception of some misguided people in this organization.”
The U.S. Senate voted down a pair of resolutions from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday that would have blocked nearly $9 billion in arms sales to Israel.
Just 15 senators, all Democrats, voted in favor of the measures—fewer than voted for similar resolutions that Sanders put forward in November.
Speaking on the Senate floor before the vote, Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) said that the resolutions were “misguided” and would “reinstate the failed policies of the Biden administration.”
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