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“I can’t believe I have to say this, but Palestinian people are not disposable,” the Michigan Democrat said.
“We must make clear to terrorist proxies that we are not fooled to their true intentions,” said Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.).
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), one of 12 Democrats to vote for the bill, called it “poison” and a “horrendous precedent.”
The report, which would be publicly available, would cover “textbooks, leaflets, pamphlets, magazines, and other instructional materials.”
The U.S. secretaries of state and defense were interrupted frequently by protesters as they testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.
Christopher Wray said that there was no indication that Hamas was capable of attacking the United States.
A supplemental funding bill includes $200 million to strengthen the security of nonprofit organizations.
“Your commitment to Israel and its security was apparent to us from the moment we met,” wrote David Friedman, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, of Rep. Mike Johnson.
“We are here together not to talk about the problems at home, which are many,” Sen. Lindsey Graham told Daniel Cohen of Newsmax.
Members of IfNot Now and Jewish Voice for Peace joined in the call for a ceasefire, a move that would keep Hamas in power.
“When you give evil people, who want to murder you, the financial resources to do so, it does not work out well,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said of the new White House funding for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“I think it would be bad for Israel to have a man who has misled the Congress and the American people about the nuclear deal with Iran,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) told JNS of Lew’s nomination.
