The Senate on Wednesday defeated, largely along party lines, an effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to advance two joint resolutions that would block the sale of $446.8 million worth of weapons and equipment to Israel.
The first joint resolution would have disapproved a $295 million sale of D9R and D9T Caterpillar bulldozers. The second would have disapproved a $151.8 million sale of 12,000 general purpose 1,000-pound gravity bombs and related support services.
Senators voted 40-59 to reject a motion to discharge the first measure from the Foreign Relations Committee and 36-63 to reject a similar motion for the second measure.
