Senate votes 40-59 against blocking $447M Israel arms sale

The Senate defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders's joint resolutions to block $446.8 million in US arms sales to Israel, voting 40-59 against the first measure covering $295 million in Caterpillar D9R and D9T bulldozers and 36-63 against the second covering $151.8 million in 1,000-pound gravity bombs. Forty of 47 Senate Democrats voted for the bulldozer measure, the highest Democratic support ever recorded for blocking Israel arms sales, but seven Democrats including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer voted with Republicans. Sanders filed the disapproval resolutions under the Arms Export Control Act.