Washington Policy Weekly

James Risch (R-Idaho), introduced S.3467 to withhold US contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine…

Tensions in Congress rose as the Senate prepared to vote on a joint resolution providing congressional disapproval of US…

The House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman introduced a bipartisan bill to curb the development of Iran's unmanned combat aerial…

Twenty-five House Democratic members wrote a letter to Secretary Blinken expressing their concern about Israel’s plan to build 3,400…

Republicans want to prevent the Biden Administration from opening a consulate in Jerusalem and the State Department confirms that…

House Democrats issued a joint statement regarding the State Department’s notification of arms sales to Saudi Arabia sent to…

Senator Ted Cruz and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart introduced S.3151 and H.R.5840 urging the US secretary of state to designate…

Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Florida) introduced H.Res.744 condemning Iran for its persecution of the minority Bahai community, in violation of…

Ilhan Omar and Jan Schakowsky introduced the Combating International Islamophobia Act (H.R.5665). The bill mandates that the State Department…

The House subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa on October 15 held a briefing on “Tunisia: Examining…

Earlier this week, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) blocked an accelerated vote on the Iron Dome Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022…

The Libya Stabilization Act (H.R.1228) passed the House of Representatives in a roll call vote. Initially introduced in late…

Progressives in the US House of Representatives attempt to block $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome missile system while…

Marcus Montgomery writes that President Biden is reversing some US policies regarding the Middle East, such as declassifying information…

A bipartisan group of House members introduced H.R. 5148 to establish a joint US-Israel center to study and develop…

The fallout from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has been fierce and partisan. Although it is largely symbolic and…

Democratic members of the House draft legislation to help Iraqi and Afghan refugees settle and find employment in the…

I. Congress Congress is still observing its August recess. The House is expected to make an earlier return than…

Senate hearings on US arms sales to the Middle East and the state of human rights in Morocco; Department…