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US arms export approvals soared in 2022
One factor in the surge is the easing of the global pandemic that in 2021 depressed sales from a spike to $83.5 billion in 2020.
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Senator Bob Menendez vowed to block Saudi arms sales after OPEC's decision to cut oil output and Russia's subsequent missile attacks on Kyiv.
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Here are three items on the national security agenda for Congress.
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Broad new war authorization roils US lawmakers
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he wants to reach consensus on his expansive new war authorization before putting it to a vote, but that consensus seemed far away Wednesday.
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