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Bipartisan House Bill Pushes to End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia

Bipartisan House Bill Pushes to End Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
A Royal Saudi Air Force KC-130J Super Hercules aerial refueling tanker delivered to Saudi Arabia in 2016. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

A bipartisan House bill announced Oct. 23 aims to prohibit military sales and aid to Saudi Arabia, effectively immediately.Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.) is sponsoring a new bill co-signed by 20 lawmakers in the House that would ban the Defense Department from providing any assistance — to include security assistance, intelligence, training, equipment, maintenance, testing or technical data — to any of the Gulf nation’s ministries or government agencies, he said Wednesday. The bill would also ban all arms sales to…

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