Saudi money is funding a lot of those lobbying efforts, and those Matt Damon anti-fracking movies.
It’s gripes my a$$ how we gave Saudi our finest F-15s (not finest any more, but still AWESOME) and AWACS jets. The F-15 has classified electronic systems, you know that got handed to every communist scumbag around. The AWACS is a billion dollar platform that is packed full of top secret electronics, and we just gave it to them (and you know the Chinese & Russians had it 5 minutes after they did).
We’ve been kissing up to Saudi for decades. Let’s kick those bastards to the curb permanently!