An effort to revoke a controversial provision in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) did not succeed. An amendment introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to kill the section failed in a voice vote on Thursday in the House Armed Services Committee. Section 224 of the proposed NDAA is titled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” “This section would require the Secretary of Defense to designate an executive agent responsible for synchronizing cooperative efforts between the United States and Israel, including bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation,” the section reads. Section Of Drafted 2027 NDAA Allegedly Would “Integrate/Synchronize” The United States And Israeli Militaries Al Jazeera has more: That defeat paves the way for the proposal to advance to the floor of the House of Representatives. Khanna had argued that the provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), formally called Section 224, rewards Benjamin Netanyahu at a time when the Israeli prime minister is trying to dictate US policy in the Middle East. The progressive Democrat cited recent reports that President Donald Trump is angry at Netanyahu over Israel’s escalation in Lebanon. “Everyone in America — whether you’re a Republican, an independent or a Democrat — says that we need to tell Netanyahu that America calls the shots, not the prime minister of any other country,” Khanna said. “They want less cooperation and blank checks to Israel, not more. Only the United States Congress would dream up at this moment, ‘Let’s actually do more for Israel.'” The vote on the amendment was taken by calling on committee members to say aloud either “yes” and “no”, and the “nays” clearly were more numerous. It was not recorded as a roll-call vote, which would require each member’s preference to be logged. “Now let me just be clear, Mr. Netanyahu actually wrote to a member of Congress to put this section 224 into the bill," Khanna said. Watch below: