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Providing for Congressional Disapproval of the Proposed Export of

Floor Speech

By: Tim Kaine
By: Tim Kaine
Date: July 30, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. KAINE. Mr. President, I will only take 1 minute.

A little over a year ago, the Senate voted for $18 billion in defense aid to Israel. On the Democratic side, the vote was 47 to 4. On the Republican side, the vote was 22 to 27. Democrats support defense aid to Israel.

This is not a vote to retract a single dollar of that $18 billion in aid; it is a vote to say that defense aid to Israel, which Democrats overwhelmingly supported, should be defensive in nature, not offensive weapons that are likely to lead to unnecessary civilian suffering and destabilization in the region.

I support defensive aid to Israel. I will support Senator Sanders' resolutions to not allow the transfer of these offensive weapons.

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