Posts Tagged: Congress Israel
Boehner Says Demand for Participation in Netanyahu’s Congress Speech is Unprecedented
The office of House Speaker John Boehner revealed that demand for tickets to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming speech to a joint session of...
Members of Congress Submit Anti-Boycott Bill
Times of Israel - WASHINGTON — Only one day after the New York state legislature withdrew a bill that sought to punish would-be participants in...
Israel Gets Half Billion Dollars in Omnibus Spending Bill
JNS.org - With much fanfare and six different pens, President Barack Obama signed the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2014 last...
What America’s Isolationism Means for Israel
There is currently a remote possibility that the Russian strategy will succeed in averting US military action by persuading Assad to hand over his chemical...
Hoyer to Lead House Democrats on Israel Tour
Times of Israel - Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the second-ranked Democrat in the US House of Representatives, is leading fellow Democrats on a tour of...
After Career in Congress, Peter Deutsch Finds New Life in Israel
JTA - When U.S. Rep. Peter Deutsch lost his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2004, forcing him out of Congress for the first time in...
U.S. Bill Threatens to Cut PA Funding if UN Declares Statehood
Times of Israel - House Republicans will seek billions of dollars in cuts to US foreign operations, but a spending bill published Thursday maintains security...
800 Cultural Exchange Trips in Congress Between 2006-2011, Only 5 to Israel
In the years 2006 -2011 U.S. lawmakers and their senior staff took more than 800 cultural exchange trips courtesy of foreign governments. Of those 800...
Pro-Israel Group Responds to Houston Billboard Calling for End to Israel Aid
The pro-Israel education group StandWithUs will counter a billboard in Houston calling for the end to U.S. military aid to Israel. StandWithUs is partnering with...
US Congressional Elections: Critical to US-Israel Relations
During a June 15, 2012 seminar at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Dr. Bill Schneider, a leading expert on US politics, reaffirmed that both...
