Bill Details
Status
Latest action
2025-02-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Introduced Date
2025-02-20
Policy Area
International Affairs
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This resolution would block a proposed U.S. military sale to Israel. The sale would provide additional ammunition parts for 155mm artillery shells, including fuzes, primers, and charges. In simple terms, Congress is being asked to reject this arms sale and stop it from going forward.
- The blocked sale would include 10,000 additional 155mm ancillary items used with artillery ammunition.
- The items covered are fuzes, primers, and charges, which are parts needed to make the shells work.
- These items would be added to earlier approved sales that had already been put in place.
Official Summaries
This joint resolution prohibits the proposed foreign military sale of certain defense articles and services to Israel.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 20 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. J. RES. 20
Providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign
military sale to Israel of certain defense articles and services.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 20, 2025
Mr. Sanders introduced the following joint resolution; which was read
twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign
military sale to Israel of certain defense articles and services.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following proposed
foreign military sale to Israel is prohibited:
(1) The sale of the following defense articles and
services, described in Transmittal No. 24-16, submitted to
Congress pursuant to section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export
Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2776(b)(1)), and published in the
Congressional Record on February 10, 2025: an additional 10,000
155mm ancillaries (fuzes, primers, and charges) that will be
added to previously implemented cases.
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