Senate to try again to hold Saudis responsible for Khashoggi killing

Nine months after the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Congress remains at a loss for how to hold Saudi Arabia accountable

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Meanwhile, Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, has his own bipartisan bill that would block certain arms sales to Saudi Arabia and in-flight refueling of Saudi aircraft to hold the kingdom accountable. Last month, Menendez announced that he and Risch reached an agreement to“The chairman has a bill, we have a bill, and we’ll have a markup and we’ll see how it goes,” Menendez said Tuesday.

Trump vetoed the Yemen resolution and is expected to veto the arms sales resolution. Neither of the resolutions has garnered enough support for veto override, “As long as President Trump refuses to take any substantive or serious action to hold Saudi Arabia accountable and Mitch McConnell is leader of the Senate, I am very skeptical,” said Sen. Chris Coons , when asked whether he thought the Senate would do anything to punish the kingdom.

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