NEW: 2 senators plan to introduce a bill Monday designed to force a vote on current and future US arms sales and other military support to Saudi Arabia, saying it's time lawmakers checked President Trump's attempts to bypass Congress on foreign policy.
"The process we are setting in motion will allow Congress to weigh in on the totality of our security relationship with Saudi Arabia, not just one arms sale, and restore Congress's role in foreign policy-making," Murphy said in a statement.
Frustration over Saudi Arabia's killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and its intervention in Yemen's civil war — and President Trump's reluctance to criticize Riyadh — has sparked a growing bipartisan response in Congress. It remains unclear whether more Republicans will join Democratic senators to form a sufficient majority to overcome a future presidential veto on the new resolutions being proposed on Saudi arms sales.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the decision last month to fast-track the massive arms package, saying the threat from Iran required urgent action and that Washington needed to act as a reliable supplier of weapons and ammunition for its Arab partners.
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