Legislative Oversight

Stable identifiers

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Canonical URL: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/53

Official text excerpt

119 SJ 53 IS: Providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of Qatar of certain defense articles and services. 
 U.S. Senate 
 2025-05-15 
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 Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. 
 
 
 
 IIA 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. J. RES. 53 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 15, 2025 Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mr. Kaine , Mr. Sanders , Mr. Van Hollen , and Mr. Schatz ) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of Qatar of certain defense articles and services. That the following proposed foreign military sale to the Government of Qatar is prohibited: (1) The sale of the following defense articles and services described in Transmittal No. 25–16, submitted to Congress pursuant to section 36(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2776(b)(1) ), and published in the Congressional Record on March 26, 2025: The following Major Defense Equipment (MDE): Eight (8) MQ–9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA); Two hundred (200) KMU–572 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits for Guided Bomb Unit (GBU)–38 or Laser JDAM GBU–54; Three hundred (300) BLU–111 500-lb general purpose bombs; One hundred (100) MXU–650 air foil groups (AFG) for Paveway II GBU–12; One hundred (100) MAU–169 computer control groups (CCG) for Paveway II GBU–12; Twenty-eight (28) Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS)/Inertial Navigation System (INS) (EGI) security devices with M-Code; Twelve (12) EGI security devices with Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Modules (SAASM); Ten (10) Lynx AN/APY–8 Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR); Ten (10) L3 Rio Grande communications intelligence (COMINT) sensor suites; One hundred ten (110) AGM–114R2 Hellfire II missiles; and…

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Contributing member votes

Citations

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