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WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday seeking to stop at least a portion of President Donald Trump's sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia.
Republican Rand Paul and Democrats Chris Murphy and Al Franken introduced a resolution of disapproval in the Senate to force a vote on whether to block part of the sale.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee received formal notice of the pending sale on May 19.
Greg Nash
By Rebecca Kheel
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is calling on the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee hold a hearing on a planned sale of precision-guided munitions kits to Saudi Arabia.
In this time of intense partisanship, shiv-in-the-kidney politics and squabbles over the meaning of truth, can Americans come together and agree that a politician slamming a journalist to the ground for asking a question is wrong?
The answer, it turns out, is no.
WASHINGTON ― Progressive members of Congress on Thursday unveiled their own plan to overhaul the nation's crumbling roads, bridges and waterways ― an ambitious proposal that dwarfs plans offered both by President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) says that his office is a "bodyslam free zone" for the media following an alleged physical confrontation between GOP House candidate Greg Gianforte and a reporter in Montana.
"Dear Press: We have created a safe zone in our office," he tweeted with the hashtag #ThursdayThoughts. "Reporters will (1) get the truth and (2) not get body slammed."
President Trump pledged on the campaign trail to create a trillion-dollar infrastructure program once elected, something that at first seemed like it might attract Democratic support.
Since President Trump took office, military posturing and bellicosity between the United States and North Korea has escalated. In recent weeks, it has grown to include reciprocal threats of the use of nuclear weapons.
Arms for health care, anyone? With the help of his son-in-law, President Donald Trump just inked a $110 billion weapons deal with Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office announced Wednesday that the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) will cut the deficit by $119 billion.
U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu of the Westside is giving his people what they want with his recently introduced SWAMP (Stop Waste And Misuse by the President) Act. If approved, it would require Trump and any cohorts under U.S. Secret Service protection (such as his wife, Melania) to pay for their own travel to properties where the president has a commercial interest.