“I am following a rule. The rule says to tell you about proposed arms sales. You have 30 days to review them. The notifications were sent to me as the committee chair. I want to put them in the official record. Some parts are classified. Senators can see those in room SD-423.”

“The law requires Congress to be told about proposed weapons sales, and we have 30 days to review them. I ask to print these sales notices in the official record so all senators can see them.”

“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.”