Welcome to the Forward’s news covrage, articles and posts about congress.
Congress
The Latest
-
Fast Forward 5 Things To Know About The Top Republican Who Said Rich Jews Bought Congress
Rep. Tom Emmer has been accused of anti-Semitism after he sent a letter to fellow Republican officeholders claiming that three Jewish Democratic billionaires had “bought control of Congress for the Democrats.” Here’s what you need to know: The letter sparked backlash: Emmer, a third-term congressman representing Minnesota’s exurban Sixth District, is the chair of the…
-
Fast Forward Here Are The 17 Members Of Congress Who Voted Against Condemning BDS
Some Democrats argued that the resolution, which has no force in law, impinged on the First Amendment
-
Fast Forward House Of Representatives Votes Overwhelmingly To Condemn BDS
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly condemned the movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. The House vote Tuesday on the non-binding resolution was 398-17. Opposing were 16 Democrats, including two who back BDS, Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and one Republican, Thomas Massie of Kentucky. The…
-
Fast Forward Dov Hikind Sues Ocasio-Cortez For Blocking Him On Twitter
(JTA) — Dov Hikind, the former Democratic New York Assemblyman, filed a lawsuit against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for blocking him on Twitter because he holds opposing viewpoints. Hikind filed the lawsuit in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. on Tuesday, hours after a federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump was violating the Constitution by…
-
Fast Forward AOC’s Chief-Of-Staff Wears T-Shirt Featuring Nazi Collaborator
(JTA) — The chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is under fire for wearing a T-shirt bearing the image of a Nazi collaborator. Saikat Chakrabarti is seen wearing the green shirt in a video that aired in December on NowThis News about Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise congressional victory the previous month. The shirt features a sketch…
-
Fast Forward House Panel Expands Probe Into Kushner, Ivanka Trump Working With Private Email
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee said Monday that he was expanding his investigation of Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and other White House employees who reportedly used personal emails, cell phones and apps for work communication, in violation of federal record-keeping laws. Chairman Elijah Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, wrote in a letter to…
-
Fast Forward Most House Democrats Slam Israeli-Palestinian Plans That Don’t Include 2 States
WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than half of the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives say a peace plan that does not expressly have as its outcome two states would endanger the prospects of peace. The resolution, a dig at the Trump administration’s peace policies, was backed by J Street, the liberal Middle East policy…
-
The Schmooze ‘You Should Be Ashamed: Jon Stewart Rebukes Congress For Half-Empty 9/11 Survivor Hearing
“Behind me, a filled room of 9/11 first responders and in front of me, a nearly empty Congress,” comedian and commentator Jon Stewart berated a small, furtive group of congress members at a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Tuesday. On Tuesday morning Stewart, who has mostly stepped away from public life since his departure from…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
- 2
News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
- 3
Opinion What does Mamdani’s response to synagogue protests mean for Jews? No one will like the answer.
- 4
Opinion More than 25% of Israelis want to leave the country. How did we get here?
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Pope Leo meets with Erdogan, says two-state solution is the ‘only’ path forward in Middle East
-
Fast Forward Meet Zevi Eckhaus, the Jewish college football bowl-bound quarterback who prays at the 18-yard line
-
Fast Forward Cory Booker has long embraced Jewish tradition. Now he has married a Jewish woman.
-
Culture She was a dancer who leapt to the top of her field — then the Trump administration fired her
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
