WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chairs of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, and Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), along with Representative Joaquin Castro (TX-20), today wrote to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding the Trump administration must meet the "gold standard" of nuclear non-proliferation protections by denying Saudi Arabia the means to produce weapons-grade uranium and plutonium, materials that could be used in a nuclear bomb. The letter was also signed by Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Andy Kim (D-N.J.), along wi...