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Only a relatively small bloc of progressive lawmakers backed Sanders’ effort. They argued that Congress had both a legal and moral obligation to examine whether U.S.-supplied weapons could be contributing to violations of American statutes and international humanitarian law. They cited existing laws designed to prevent U.S. complicity in human rights abuses abroad, insisting that oversight was not radical but required. To them, conditioning or pausing arms transfers was not abandonment—it was accountability.
