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Senate backs selling weapons to Saudis

By Joel Gehrke
Published September 21, 2016 7:10pm ET
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Senate backs selling weapons to Saudis
"We can't ask our Middle East allies to fight harder and do more and not provide them with the weaponry to do it," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Wednesday. "I think Saudi Arabia is a valuable partner in the war on terror. If you want to lose Saudi Arabia as an ally, be careful what you wish for." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) | Alex Brandon

A broad majority of Senate lawmakers on Wednesday voted down a resolution aimed at canceling the sale of U.S. military weapons to Saudi Arabia, over fears that the country is undermining one of the United States’ critical alliances in the Middle East.

Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., offered a resolution disapproving the sale, but opponents made a motion to table it, and the motion passed easily, 71-27.

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