Tag: U.S. Congress
Has Biden tipped the Democrats back towards a bipartisan consensus?
It’s all a matter of perspective. For Israel’s government, the obvious benefits of President Joe Biden’s brief visit to Israel, his fulsome rhetoric of support for the Jewish state and scathing denunciations of Hamas...
House bill amasses bipartisan consensus to continue Iran sanctions
Three measures opposing violence and human-rights abuses perpetrated by the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism passed in the U.S. House of Representatives.
On Tuesday, the Combat Rampant Iranian Missile Exports (Fight CRIME) Act (H.R. 3152) received 403...
Congressman: ‘Insanity’ to have Iranian propagandist at US military seminar
Speakers at the 2023 U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium, which was held Aug. 16-17 in Omaha, Neb., included current and former military leaders, a member of Congress, a governor and a university president.
And then...
‘Sensitive’ State Dept. document runs in Tehran paper, as Foggy Bottom rebuffs Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders have expressed frustration that the U.S. State Department has been stonewalling Congress about details of the June suspension of Robert Malley as special envoy to Iran.
Now a newspaper with close ties...
In Israel, House Democrats reaffirm ‘solidarity with the Jewish state’
Two dozen Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives—led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)—are in Israel for a six-day trip that started earlier this week, sponsored by the American...
Netanyahu meets with 24 Democratic members of Congress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday welcomed a delegation of 24 Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives to his Jerusalem office.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York and previous House Majority...
US State Department to brief lawmakers on suspension of Iran envoy Malley
Details remain sketchy, but Robert Malley confirmed at the beginning of the month that the U.S. State Department had suspended him from his role as special envoy for Iran.
Malley, who as an undergraduate penned a 1980 Yale...
US lawmakers: Iran disagreement at root of Biden snub of Netanyahu
It is a common refrain in U.S. President Joe Biden’s speeches and statements and at State Department press briefings that Israel is threatening its democratic character by seeking to reform its judiciary, which legal...
Any deal with Iran requires congressional approval
Iran is pretty much a nuclear threshold state, having enriched enough uranium to build multiple nuclear bombs within a few weeks while hard at work weaponizing them in a timeframe that is so far...
65 senators support adding Israel to US Visa Waiver Program
Allowing Israel to join the U.S. Visa Waiver Program would “significantly increase the potential for both tourism and business travel,” according to a letter penned by 65 senators to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and...