Senate scuttles resolution to secure human rights report on Israel aid

The Senate voted Tuesday night against a measure that would have commissioned a report on U.S. aid to Israel and examined whether the country has violated international human rights standards in its ongoing war in Gaza.

More than 70 lawmakers, including many Democrats, voted to table the proposed resolution, introduced by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and fast-tracked to a floor vote. With the measure laid on the table, it is effectively dead in the upper chamber.

Sanders’ resolution, which ultimately failed 72-11, would have leveraged a provision in the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act allowing Congress to request information from the State Department about the human rights record of any country receiving aid from the U.S.