No. of Recommendations: 6
While the vote was not recorded, there are 57 members of the House Armed Services Committee, 31 Repubs, and 26 Dems. Do the math. There were two votes for Khanna's amendment, everyone else,
of both parties, voted "no".
House Dems Join GOP to Help Advance Deeper US-Israeli Military Integration
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced an amendment to strike Section 224—which would establish a formal “United States–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative”—from the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act.
In Thursday’s voice vote, members of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) from both parties rejected the amendment to remove Section 2024 from the NDAA, with only Khanna and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) backing the measure.
In a letter to Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.)—who is not on the HASC—Netanyahu said he is “heartened” by Section 224’s plan to “develop a new Memorandum of Understanding with the United States government” that will reduce “US financial military assistance over the next decade” and replace it with “a new framework of joint defense cooperation, codevelopment, coproduction, and mutual investment.”https://www.commondreams.org/news/ndaa-section-224Section 224 is the amendment discussed in the "fuse me" post, about sharing DoD's R&D programs, networks, and data, with the IDF. What the heck is the PM of Israel doing writing a letter of thanks to a backbencher from Indiana? Stutzman, who is not on the Armed Services Committee, first broached the idea of giving the IDF an open door to everything DoD does. Even our allies in the "five eyes" intelligence sharing agreement do not have a level of access like that.
Steve
