On June 13, 2017, the Senate narrowly failed to vote against Trump’s Saudi arms deal, reflecting “mounting concern over the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen’s war,” according to the New York Times. “Nearly half of the U.S. Senate sent an overwhelmingly clear message to Riyadh that … it needs to stop killing civilians in Yemen,” Human…
On March 23, a bipartisan group of ten Senators urged Secretary of State Tillerson to launch an urgent diplomatic effort to address obstacles in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen preventing humanitarian aid from being delivered to people who desperately need it. They specifically called for opening Yemen’s Hodeida port to humanitarian aid to…
An apartment building in a West Bank settlement was funded by an organization headed by David Friedman, Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel. The building is financed by American Friends of Beit El Institutions, which Friedman chairs. American Friends of Beit El Institutions raised almost $667,000 for its Israeli counterpart, the Organization for the Sukkat…
The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on overriding the President’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terror Act [JASTA]. This bill would remove Saudi Arabia’s immunity from lawsuits brought by 9/11 families over the alleged responsibility of Saudi officials for the 9/11 attacks. Override of the President’s veto would be a historic repudiation…
The following Senators voted against tabling a motion to stop the sale of $1.15 billion in tanks and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia. Effectively, these Senators were voicing opposition to the sale. Baldwin Blumenthal Booker Boxer Cantwell Durbin Franken Gillibrand Heinrich Heller Hirono Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Lee Markey Murphy Murray Paul Reid Sanders Schatz…
You can never be sure what the Senate will vote on and when they will vote on it. But currently, a vote on the Paul-Murphy-Lee-Franken resolution to disapprove the Saudi arms deal is expected Tuesday. Call your Senator now at (202) 224-3121. When you reach a staffer or leave a message, you can say something…
We’ve made petitions localized to each state where we have a plausible story that there’s a Senator there who could be an early co-sponsor of the resolution against the Saudi arms deal – if they heard a groundswell from constituents. If your state is on the following list, please click the state’s link to sign…
On Sept. 8, Senators Chris Murphy [D-CT], Rand Paul [R-KY], Al Franken [D-MN], and Mike Lee [R-UT] introduced a bipartisan resolution – SJ Res 39 – to stop the sale of $1.15 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia that would be used to fuel the war in Yemen. Call your Senator now at (202) 224-3121….
On June 16, the House of Representatives narrowly failed to approve an amendment sponsored by Rep. John Conyers [D-MI] that would have blocked the transfer of U.S. cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, which has used U.S. cluster bombs in civilian areas in Yemen, in defiance of U.S. law. Textron, based in Providence, Rhode Island, is…
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) have introduced legislation to prevent the U.S. from continuing to support Saudi-led military campaigns in places like Yemen where Saudi Arabia’s year-long campaign has led to a devastating humanitarian crisis and a security vacuum that has empowered our terrorist enemies al Qaeda and ISIS. The Murphy-Paul bipartisan legislation will require the President to formally certify…