Block the export of rifles and munitions to Israel (Sanders, July 2025)
Senate Joint Resolution, S.J.Res. 41
What it did
Under the Arms Export Control Act, a senator can force the Senate to vote on blocking a specific weapons sale to another government. These resolutions were sitting in the Foreign Relations Committee, so Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) moved to put them on the Senate floor. A yes vote would have let the full Senate decide the sale.
A no vote kept the question off the floor.
S.J.Res. 41 targeted the proposed direct commercial export of US rifles and munitions to Israel, including assault rifles of the kind distributed to settlers in the occupied West Bank. The Senate kept the question off the floor 27-70 on July 30, 2025, the day after the Gaza Ministry of Health count passed 60,000.
At the time of this vote, 60,034 innocent people had been murdered in Gaza, 18,592 of them children.
Result: Rejected 27-70
At the time of this vote: ~60,034 innocent people murdered (~18,592 young children murdered)
The humane vote: Yes (YEA)