[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 172 (Wednesday, November 20, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S6665]
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                   MOTION TO DISCHARGE--S.J. RES. 113

  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, pursuant to section 36(b) of the Arms 
Export Control Act, I move to discharge the Committee on Foreign 
Relations from further consideration of S.J. Res. 113, relating to the 
disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of 
Israel of certain defense articles and services.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       Motion to discharge from the Committee on Foreign Relations 
     S.J. Res. 113, providing for congressional disapproval of the 
     proposed foreign military sale of the Government of Israel 
     certain defense articles and services.

  Mr. SANDERS. I ask unanimous consent to dispense with further reading 
of the resolution.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Under the previous order, there will now be 2 minutes of debate, 
equally divided.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. President, the law is very clear. This is not a 
complicated issue.
  U.S. weapons cannot be provided to countries who violate 
internationally recognized human rights or block U.S. humanitarian aid. 
It goes without saying that Israel had a right to defend itself from 
the horrific Hamas terrorist attack of October 7. But Israel did not 
have the right to kill 43,000 Palestinians and injure over 100,000--60 
percent of whom are women, children, and the elderly. It did not have 
the right to destroy Gaza's infrastructure, healthcare system, schools, 
and university. And it certainly does not have the right to starve 
thousands and thousands of children in Gaza.
  The United States cannot be complicit in these atrocities. We cannot 
give billions of dollars to the Netanyahu government and have them defy 
U.S. law while they take U.S. money.
  I urge a ``yes'' vote on this resolution.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maryland.
  Mr. CARDIN. In opposition to the resolution, let me just cite the 
views that we received from the administration, which we urge you to 
oppose the resolutions which will prolong the wars, not shorten them, 
put Israel at risk and inject wind into the sails of Iran and its 
proxies just as they are facing a historic low point and looking for a 
deal.
  This resolution will only prolong the war. It will put Israel at risk 
fighting our mutual enemies, and I would urge my colleagues to reject 
the resolution.


                             Vote on Motion

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the motion to 
discharge.
  Mr. SANDERS. I ask for the yeas and nays.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
  There appears to be a sufficient second.
  The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator 
from Indiana (Mr. Braun) and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).
  The result was announced--yeas 19, nays 78, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 293 Leg.]

                                YEAS--19

     Durbin
     Heinrich
     Helmy
     Hirono
     Kaine
     King
     Lujan
     Markey
     Merkley
     Murphy
     Ossoff
     Sanders
     Schatz
     Shaheen
     Smith
     Van Hollen
     Warnock
     Warren
     Welch

                                NAYS--78

     Barrasso
     Bennet
     Blackburn
     Blumenthal
     Booker
     Boozman
     Britt
     Brown
     Budd
     Butler
     Cantwell
     Capito
     Cardin
     Carper
     Casey
     Cassidy
     Collins
     Coons
     Cornyn
     Cortez Masto
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crapo
     Cruz
     Daines
     Duckworth
     Ernst
     Fetterman
     Fischer
     Gillibrand
     Graham
     Grassley
     Hagerty
     Hassan
     Hawley
     Hickenlooper
     Hoeven
     Hyde-Smith
     Johnson
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Klobuchar
     Lankford
     Lee
     Lummis
     Manchin
     Marshall
     McConnell
     Moran
     Mullin
     Murkowski
     Murray
     Padilla
     Paul
     Peters
     Reed
     Ricketts
     Risch
     Romney
     Rosen
     Rounds
     Rubio
     Schmitt
     Schumer
     Scott (FL)
     Scott (SC)
     Sinema
     Stabenow
     Sullivan
     Tester
     Thune
     Tillis
     Tuberville
     Warner
     Whitehouse
     Wicker
     Wyden
     Young

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Baldwin
       

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Braun
     Vance
       
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Hassan). On this vote, the yeas are 19, 
the nays are 78.
  One Senator responded present. The motion was not agreed to.
  The motion was rejected.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont.

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