WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday voted to defeat a war powers resolution for Yemen that represented an attempt to insert congressional oversight into U.S. military operations in the deadly civil war there.

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Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that he has many concerns about the conflict, including Saudi Arabia’s tactics, “the unacceptable scale of civilian casualties, the severity of the humanitarian crisis, and the seeming lack of momentum on all sides toward a political track to negotiate an end to this conflict.”

But Menendez said he didn’t support the resolution because he worries that a withdrawal would “weaken our leadership and ability to influence a political settlement and improve humanitarian conditions and could even make the situation worse.”

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