Washington Policy Weekly

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    May 9, 2022

    The Senate’s Judiciary Committee passed the No Oil Producing or Exporting Cartels Act by a vote of 17 to…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    May 2, 2022

    Senators and House members proposed legislation to demand that the Pentagon establish mechanisms to report on civilian casualties during…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Apr 25, 2022

    In honor of the National Arab American Heritage Month, the White House held a briefing on the Biden Administration’s…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Apr 18, 2022

    Republicans want the administration to report on any Russian benefits that may accrue from nuclear negotiations with Iran.

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Apr 12, 2022

    Republicans introduce legislation to prohibit the disbursement of any US government money to Amnesty International and its employees.

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Apr 4, 2022

    House and Senate members issued a statement condemning Tunisian President Kais Saied’s dissolution of Tunisia’s parliament and urged Saied…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Mar 28, 2022

    A group of House Democrats wrote to Secretary Blinken to prevent Israel’s eviction of 38 Palestinian families from the…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Mar 21, 2022

    House Republicans introduce legislation to oppose lifting terrorism sanctions and any restoration of the JCPOA so long as Iran…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Mar 14, 2022

    Republican senators ask the Biden Administration to abandon nuclear negotiations with Iran and Democratic senators call for investigating civilian…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Mar 7, 2022

    Lee Zeldin introduced the Israel Anti-Boycott Act in the House of Representatives to combat what he deemed attempts by…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Feb 28, 2022

    Twelve Democratic and Independent senators wrote to Secretary Blinken expressing their opposition to designating Yemen’s Houthis a Foreign Terrorist…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Feb 22, 2022

    Speaker Pelosi led a delegation of seven committee and subcommittee Democratic leaders to Israel and Palestine where they met…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Feb 14, 2022

    Senator Rand Paul expressed his strong opposition to arms sales to Egypt. Objecting to what he called “mere slaps…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Feb 7, 2022

    Congressional rejection of the report by Amnesty International on Israeli apartheid; President Biden’s designation of Qatar as a major…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Jan 31, 2022

    Rep. Gregory Meeks and Democratic colleagues wrote to Secretary Blinken urging the administration to adhere to its commitment to…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Jan 24, 2022

    Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urge Biden to continue efforts to secure the release of journalist Austin…

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Jan 18, 2022

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

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Dec 13, 2021

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

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Dec 6, 2021

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

  • Washington Policy Weekly

    Washington Policy Weekly

    Nov 29, 2021

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