WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
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Washington (September 17, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chairs of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, along with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), this week introduced a joint resolution of disapproval (JRD) for the Trump administration's proposed sale of conventional weapons to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The weapons include thousands of joint direct attack munitions (JDAMs) and five thousand 2,000-pound bombs.
Separately, the Trump administration recently submitted an agreement on U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation to Congress-as is required by law-but has classi...