Bill Details
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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 stop the U.S. government from approving a proposed change to an arms export license for Israel. The blocked shipment would add more precision-guided bomb parts and weapons, including Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM, tail kits and Small Diameter Bombs, for use by Israel’s Ministry of Defense. In simple terms, the resolution is Congress saying it does not want this extra weapons transfer to go forward.
- It is a joint resolution of congressional disapproval, which means Congress would formally object to the proposed export change.
- The resolution would prohibit the issuance of a license amendment for the export described in the notice sent to Congress.
- The proposed amendment would allow the transfer of 15,500 additional JDAM tail kits and 615 additional Small Diameter Bombs to Israel.
- The weapons and related services are described as defense articles and defense services for the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Official Summaries
This joint resolution prohibits issuance of a license amendment for the export 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. 23 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. J. RES. 23
Providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed license
amendment for the export 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 license
amendment for the export 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 issuance of a license
amendment to export with respect to the following proposed export to
Israel is prohibited:
(1) The export of the following defense articles and
defense services described in Transmittal No. DDTC 24-052,
which was submitted to Congress pursuant to section 36(c) of
the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2776(c)) and
communication of which was published in the Congressional
Record on February 10, 2025 (Executive Communication 337):
Boeing Direct Attack Weapons (Joint Direct Attack Munition
(JDAM) variants and Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) Increment I
variants) for end-use by the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The
amendment authorizes the transfer of 15,500 additional JDAM
tail kits and an additional 615 SDBs to the Israeli Ministry of
Defense.
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