A handful of progressives and one Republican voted against the funds after they were stripped from a temporary government funding bill.
An overwhelming bipartisan majority of the House voted Thursday to pass $1 billion in funding for Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defense system days after progressives succeeded in getting the funds stripped from a temporary government funding bill.... [+]
trip to Israel and Auschwitz-Birkenau as part of a bipartisan delegation from the House of Representatives on January 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. The liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945 is remembered all around the world this week on its 75th anniversary. The bill passed 420-9-2, with Reps.
Tlaib, one of the most prominent Israel critics in the House, argued in a floor speech ahead of the vote the funding would “enable war crimes, human rights abuses and violence.” Tlaib’s comments drew rebukes from colleagues in both parties, with Rep. Ted Deutch declaring in a floor speech after Tlaib’s, “If you believe in human rights, if you believe in saving lives… then you will support this legislation.”
Deutch and Reps. Chuck Fleischmann and Joe Wilson all accused Tlaib of anti-Semitism in their floor speeches.
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