Arms Sales Notification

The Senate considered required notifications of proposed foreign arms sales. Under the Arms Export Control Act, the administration must notify Congress before certain weapons sales, giving Congress 30 days to review them. Senator Risch placed the latest sale notifications into the record so senators could review them. No substantive debate on the merits of any sale occurred.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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James E. Risch, ID

Republican
“The law says the Senate must be told about planned weapon sales so we can review them. I am putting the latest weapon sale notices into the official record so all senators can read them.”
Official Congressional Record

Mr. President, section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may be reviewed. The provision stipulates that, in the Senate, the notification of proposed sales shall be sent to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In keeping with the committee’s intention to see that relevant information is still available to the full Senate, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the notifications that have been received. If the cover letter references a classified annex, then such an annex is available to all Senators in the office of the Foreign Relations Committee, room SD-423. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:

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