As I noted earlier, I plan to do a short series of posts highlighting some of the amendments to the defense appropriations bill in the House that passed today.
John Conyers (MI-13) offered an amendment to block funds from being used to transfer or authorize the transfer of cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has used cluster bombs in its ongoing attack on Yemen. The indiscriminate nature of such weapons means that the Saudis have likely been killing civilians, something that they have been indifferent to over the course of this war. The US has been complicit in the Saudi atrocities throughout this war, providing weaponry and intelligence, although at least some glimmers of a change in direction came last month when the White House put a hold on the transfer of cluster bombs.
Conyers’s amendment failed 204 to 216. 164 Democrats and 40 Republicans voted for it. 200 Republicans and 16 Democrats voted against it.
Who were those 16 Democrats?
Pete Aguilar (CA-31)
Sanford Bishop (GA-02)
Jim Cooper (TN-05)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
John Delaney (MD-06)
Susan Davis (CA-53)
Eliot Engel (NY-16)
Ruben Gallego (AZ-07)
Gene Green (TX-29)
Sean Maloney (NY-18)
Scott Peters (CA-52)
Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02)
Brad Sherman (CA-30)
Albio Sires (NJ-08)
Adam Smith (WA-09)
Filemon Vela (TX-34)