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Bill Weld

Born in 1945, William Weld received an A.B. from Harvard in 1966 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1970. He was appointed U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts in 1981, then served as head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division from 1986 to 1988. He was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. He later worked as a lawyer and was briefly the executive officer of Decker College.

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Arms Trade Treaty

Weld’s position on this issue is unknown.

Arms Sales to Saudi Coalition

Weld's position on this issue is unknown. He has criticized U.S. support for Saudi Arabia, but has not articulated what actions he would take to change it.

Response to Council on Foreign Relations Questionnaire, October 3, 2019

“Business as usual with Saudi Arabia has to be over. The country has been supporting militant Salafists who have been trying to kill us – and succeeded on 9/11 and a host of other places – for decades now. We need to stand against aggression, no matter who engages in it, and rally support for that position. The peace of the world depends on our doing so.”

First Republican debate, September 24, 2019

“I'm not quite clear why we're sending troops to Saudi Arabia to defend their oil supplies. Don't they have any troops over there? I know they have a lot of weapons because we sold them all to Saudi Arabia, but maybe we should make sure they know how to fly those planes and fire those missiles. I just I don't get it. Boots on the ground to another country for regime change or to correct something that we see in the other country that we don't like. That's the height of you know, the lessons we learned from the Iraq war we shouldn't do that.”

Firearms Export Oversight

Weld’s position on this issue is unknown.