
A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged his fellow lawmakers May 22 to increase their scrutiny of arms exports to minimize the United States' role in causing civilian casualties.Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said at a Stimson Center conference that few arms sales are debated in Congress even though the United States is the world’s leading weapons exporter and sells many of its lethal wares to developing countries with poor human rights records. In 2016, the United States sold about $40…