Disapprove $295M Caterpillar D9 bulldozer sale to Israel

Plain English.

A joint resolution of disapproval that would have blocked the $295 million sale of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers to Israel. The D9 is the same armored bulldozer model the IDF uses for the demolition of Palestinian homes and that killed American activist Rachel Corrie in 2003.

The stakes.

D9 bulldozers are used by the IDF for demolition of Palestinian homes and orchards in the West Bank and Gaza. Blocking the $295M sale was a procedural test of whether Congress would condition military hardware on human-rights compliance. It failed.

• D9 bulldozers are the same model used to kill American activist Rachel Corrie in 2003 in Rafah.
• Sale proceeds to Caterpillar, a US defense contractor and longtime AIPAC-aligned political donor.
• Vote was a motion to discharge — procedural test of whether the Senate would even debate the sale.
• 40 of the 100 senators voted Yea. Of the 59 Nay, the pro-Israel PAC totals are visible below.
• Bernie Sanders has built a record of forcing these procedural-discharge votes specifically to put the lobby money on the roll call.

Every vote. Every dollar.

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