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Fast Forward Congress May Push for New Iran Sanctions After Election Day
The Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives plan a vote as soon as mid-November on a 10-year reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act, congressional aides told Reuters on Tuesday. The act, which expires on Dec. 31, is one of the major pieces of unfinished business facing lawmakers when they return to Washington on…
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Fast Forward Internet Heats Up Over Comparison of Trump’s Words on Clinton To Rhetoric Preceding Rabin Assassination
The comparison between Donald Trump’s comments about what “Second Amendment people” can do to stop Hillary Clinton and the violent rhetoric that preceded the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 is heating up the Internet. At a rally in North Carolina, Trump said that Republicans who are not happy with Clinton’s comments…
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Fast Forward Challenger Blasts Debbie Wasserman Schultz Over Emails Tied to Congressional Race
An email leak that led to the resignation of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz could plague her bid for re-election to Congress, after a challenger said on Monday he would file a complaint alleging she had broken election rules. Political newcomer Tim Canova, who is challenging Wasserman Schultz in the Aug. 30 Democratic…
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Fast Forward Congress Proposes Statue In Honor of Elie Wiesel
Several U.S. congressmen introduced resolutions to honor the life and work of Elie Wiesel, including a proposal to create a memorial statue to be placed in the U.S. Capitol building. Three members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council — Reps. Steve Israel, D-N.Y.; Patrick Meehan, D-Pa., and Ted Deutch, D-Fla. — offered a resolution Friday…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Booed in Congress for Not Getting Behind Hillary Clinton
(JTA) — House Democrats booed Sen. Bernie Sanders on the floor of Congress Wednesday, sending him a strong message for not quitting his presidential campaign and endorsing Hillary Clinton. The House of Representatives session in the morning directed intense questioning at Sanders, a Vermont Independent senator, about why he has not yet endorsed Clinton and…
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News Jerrold Nadler Congressional Fight Heats Up as Election Day Arrives
It would take a political earthquake for Congressman Jerry Nadler to lose to his first primary challenger since 1996, but in a year of political earthquakes, the Democratic veteran is taking no chances. The longtime congressman, whose represents more Jews than any other member of the House, has been campaigning hard as competition around the…
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News Meet the Iranian Jew Who’s Running for Congress — Despite the Donald Trump Trolls
Anna Kaplan is a Jewish Iranian refugee who has been living in America for almost four decades. She’s a councilwoman in Long Island, New York and on June 28 will run against five other candidates in the Democratic primary to determine who will face Jack Martins, the Republican candidates, this fall, when voters decide who…
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Fast Forward Jacky Rosen Wins Democratic Congressional Primary in Nevada Swing District
WASHINGTON — The president of a Las Vegas-area synagogue handpicked by the Democratic Party leadership to run in a competitive congressional district won the primary. Jacky Rosen, a software developer who helms Ner Tamid, a Reform synagogue in Henderson, Nevada, and the largest in the region, handily defeated her rivals in Tuesday’s primary in the…
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