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Israel, like every other nation, has the fundamental right to defend itself and protect its citizens from terror. The actions carried out against Islamic Jihad, a recognized terrorist organization that continues to plot attacks against Israeli civilians and aim for the eradication of the Jewish state, were aimed at preventing atrocities against civilians.
Today’s visit by President Erdogan highlights the danger of the Trump Administration turning a blind eye to the actions of foreign leaders like him who have amassed power and seek to rule as autocrats, subverting democracy in their countries and exploiting divisions and ethnic conflicts to promote their own legitimacy.
Thanks to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, 800,000 Dreamers – young people were brought here as children and have done nothing wrong – have been able to remain in the only country they know as home and contribute to our economy and our nation’s future.
Today, Americans from all walks of life celebrate the service of veterans and the sacrifices they and their families made to keep our country safe.
Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect,’ President Kennedy told the people of a besieged West Berlin in 1963. However, he declared, ‘we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.’ His powerful words chipped like figurative hammers against the system of totalitarian Communism, which cast a shadow of fear and repression across Eastern and Central Europe and much of the world.
I was sad to learn that my friend Rep. Pete Visclosky, with whom I served for thirty-four years, will retire from the House at the end of the 116th Congress.
Efforts by some Republican Members of Congress to ‘out’ the whistleblower who revealed President Trump’s abuse of power are a blatant attempt at witness intimidation.
By officially withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, President Trump is placing Americans’ health, our environment, and our nation’s economic competitiveness at risk.
I think every Member of Congress, Republican or Democrat, ought to vote not [with] their party, not their partisanship, but [for] the Constitution and [for] the protection of the Constitution.
U.S. economic growth slowed again in the third quarter, down to an annualized pace of just 1.9 percent… 1.9 percent is a far cry from the ‘4 percent, 5 percent and even 6 percent’ growth rates that Trump once promised to deliver.