The US Senate’s top foreign relations lawmaker struck a humbler note on Monday but remained defiant after federal prosecutors alleged he took bribes in exchange for facilitating US foreign arms sales and passed sensitive US government information to Egypt.
The U.S. State Department must decide by Sept. 14 whether to withhold a portion of the roughly $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns.
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