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发帖数: 19544 | 1 Senate Passes Bill Exposing Saudi Arabia to 9/11 Legal Claims
WASHINGTON — A bill that would let the families of those killed in the Sept
. 11 attacks sue Saudi Arabia for any role in the terrorist plot passed the
Senate unanimously on Tuesday, bringing Congress closer to a showdown with
the White House, which has threatened to veto the legislation.
The Senate’s passage of the bill, which will now be taken up in the House,
is another sign of escalating tensions in a relationship between the United
States and Saudi Arabia that once received little scrutiny from lawmakers.
Administration officials have lobbied against the bill, a view that the
White House spokesman Josh Earnest reiterated after the vote. And the Saudi
government has warned that if the legislation passes, it might begin selling
off up to $750 billion in Treasury securities and other assets in the
United States before they face a danger of being frozen by American courts.
Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the warning to
lawmakers and the administration while in Washington in March.
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