US House votes to resume arms supply to Israel
The US House of Representatives has voted in favour of a bill aimed at forcing President Joe Biden to resume arms deliveries to Israel which had been paused.
The US House of Representatives has voted in favour of a bill aimed at forcing President Joe Biden to resume arms deliveries to Israel which had been paused.
With this move, the US House joins the list of a number of government entities that have imposed the ban on the Chinese-owned social media app.
The resolution was adopted in a largely party-line vote of 229-202, with only nine Republicans joining all Democrats in approving it, Xinhua news agency reported.
US media reported that the momentum is building for full congressional repeal of the 2002 authorisation
The Democrats, thanks to whose majority in the House the bill was passed in the lower chamber last year, have framed the long unresolved and controversial issue from the perspective of equal representation and voting rights, arguing that the status of "taxation without representation" for the total of over 700,000 Washingtonians should end.
A group of Republican Senators led by Susan Collins from the state of Maine on Monday unveiled their $618 billion Covid-19 relief proposal, falling short of Democrats' demands.
Last Friday, President Trump had ordered the death of Gen Qasem Soleimani, following which Iran had launched over a dozen ballistic missiles at two military bases housing US troops in Iraq.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said the vote honoured the memory of the victims.
Trump's comments followed his State of the Union speech on Tuesday in which he warned Democrats against undertaking 'ridiculous partisan investigations'.
The Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives has passed a spending package aimed at ending the partial government shutdown without paying for President Donald Trump's border wall, drawing a veto threat from the White House.
