Providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed direct commercial sale to Israel of certain weaponry and munitions.

Bill: 117-hjres-49
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2021-05-20
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Foreign aid and international relief

Israel

Middle East

Military assistance, sales, and agreements

Trade restrictions
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This joint resolution prohibits the issuance of an export license for specified defense articles, defense services, and technical data for end use by Israel.</p>

tv_txt: IA 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 49 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 20, 2021 Ms. Ocasio-Cortez (for herself, Mr. Pocan , Ms. Tlaib , Ms. Bush , Ms. McCollum , Ms. Pressley , Ms. Omar , Mr. Carson , Mr. Grijalva , Ms. Jayapal , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Ms. Newman , Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois , Mr. García of Illinois , and Mr. Bowman ) submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed direct commercial sale to Israel of certain weaponry and munitions.

That the issuance of a license for the export with respect to any of the following transfers to Israel is prohibited: (1) The transfer of the following defense articles, including defense services and technical data, described in license document DDTC 20–084, submitted to Congress pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2776(c) ) on May 5, 2021: The proposed transfer of defense articles, defense services, and technical data to support weapons integration, flight test, and hardware delivery of Joint Direct Attack Munition variants and Small Diameter Bomb Increment I variants for end-use by the Ministry of Defense for Israel.