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Whole House on the State of the Union for consideration of XXIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: Up House Resolution 155 and ask for its immediate consideration. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call For complete and accurate display of this text, see the PDF.įrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [AMERICAN OVERSEAS INTERESTS ACT OF 1995 The Biden administration halted sales of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that were previously approved by the Trump administration.Formatting necessary for an accurate reading of this text may be shown by tags (e.g., or ) or may be missing from this TXT display. has provided more than $630 million in humanitarian assistance to Yemen in fiscal year 2020, according to figures provided by the State department. The United Nations has said that the ongoing armed conflict in Yemen has produced the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Lawmakers who backed the measure criticized Saudi Arabia for a slew of bombing campaigns that contributed to civilian deaths in Yemen. At the time Trump said the congressional resolution was "unnecessary" and that it endangered "the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future." military assistance and involvement in Yemen. Trump vetoed a measure in 2019 aimed at ending U.S. The Saudi-led intervention in Yemen had previously enjoyed the backing of former President Donald Trump's administration. Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have carried out attacks in Yemen against the Houthis. The Yemen civil war escalated in 2014 when Houthi forces, who are in alliance with former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, took over the nation's capital. had assessed that Russia was in compliance with its New START Treaty obligations since the inception of the agreement in 2011. inspectors to have eyes on Russian nuclear forces and facilities," Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement Wednesday.īlinken also added that the U.S.
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"The New START Treaty's verification regime enables us to monitor Russian compliance with the treaty and provides us with greater insight into Russia's nuclear posture, including through data exchanges and onsite inspections that allow U.S. Read more: Former ambassador warns expiration of key nuclear treaty with Russia would make the U.S. The United States and Russia own the lion's share of the world's nukes. Similar to the INF treaty, New START limits the nuclear arsenals of Washington and Moscow. The agreement is the sole arms control treaty in place between Washington and Moscow following former Trump's withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, treaty. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, was set to expire this week. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied having a role in Navalny's poisoning.īiden also discussed his recent decision to extend a crucial nuclear weapons treaty with Russia for five more years. In September, the German government said that the 44-year-old Russian dissident was poisoned by a chemical nerve agent, describing the toxicology report as providing " unequivocal evidence." The nerve agent was in the family of Novichok, which was developed by the Soviet Union. Russian doctors treating Navalny denied that the Kremlin critic had been poisoned and blamed his comatose state on low blood sugar levels. Last year, Navalny was medically evacuated to Germany from a Russian hospital after he became ill following reports that something was added to his tea.
