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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextREQUESTING INFORMATION ON ISRAEL'S HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES PURSUANT TO
SECTION 502B(c) OF THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961—Motion to
Discharge
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. President, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2304(c) and in accordance with section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, I move to discharge the Committee on Foreign Relations from further consideration of S. Res. 852.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report.
The senior assistant executive clerk read as follows:
Motion to discharge from the Committee on Foreign
Relations, S. Res. 852, a resolution requesting information
on Israel's human rights practices pursuant to section
502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. I ask for the yeas and nays.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second?
There appears to be a sufficient second.
The yeas and nays are ordered.
Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. President, I want to thank my colleague from Vermont Senator Welch, thank Senator Sanders, who was here earlier, Senator Kaine, and all of our colleagues who have cosponsored a very important resolution demanding accountability—demanding accountability in the killings of nine American citizens on the West Bank in just the last 4 years. And as both the Biden administration and the Trump administration have said, if we don't get accountability, then these killings will continue with impunity.
So this is about saving American citizens' lives. It is also a recognition that if we can't get accountability for American citizens, imagine how hard it is for a Palestinian to get accountability for human rights abuses committed against them—and about the Americans being currently detained in Israeli military prisons and the hundreds of Palestinian kids being detained as we speak.
what the U.S. Government is doing to protect its own citizens. I would hope that every Member of this body would support a resolution that does that and calls for a review of the human rights situation and conditions on the West Bank.
So with that, Mr. President, I would ask that the previously scheduled vote begin immediately.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Vote on Motion to Discharge
The question is on agreeing to the motion to discharge.
The yeas and nays were previously ordered.
The clerk will call the roll.
The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.
Mr. BARRASSO. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy) and the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan).
The result was announced—yeas 47, nays 51, as follows:
Rollcall Vote No. 252 Leg.
YEAS—47
Alsobrooks
Baldwin
Bennet
Blumenthal
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Cortez Masto
Duckworth
Durbin
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Klobuchar
Lujan
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Ossoff
Padilla
Paul
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Schumer
Shaheen
Slotkin
Smith
Van Hollen
Warner
Warnock
Warren
Welch
Whitehouse
Wyden
NAYS—51
Armstrong
Banks
Barrasso
Blackburn
Boozman
Britt
Budd
Capito
Collins
Cornyn
Cotton
Cramer
Crapo
Cruz
Curtis
Daines
Ernst
Fetterman
Fischer
Graham
Grassley
Hagerty
Hawley
Hoeven
Husted
Hyde-Smith
Johnson
Justice
Kennedy
Lankford
Lee
Lummis
Marshall
McConnell
McCormick
Moody
Moran
Moreno
Murkowski
Ricketts
Risch
Rounds
Schmitt
Scott (FL)
Scott (SC)
Sheehy
Thune
Tillis
Tuberville
Wicker
Young
NOT VOTING—2
Cassidy
Sullivan
The motion was rejected.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Lummis). The Senator from South Dakota.