Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Jewish Republican representing eastern Long Island, N.Y., spoke at the Republican National Convention Wednesday evening, praising front-line medical workers and repeating the convention’s theme: That Americans must reelect Trump “to make our country greater than ever before.” Zeldin also praised the president’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “During a once-in-a-century pandemic,…
Rep. Lee Zeldin is a Republican congressman from Long Island, N.Y., who has positioned himself as a staunch political supporter of President Donald Trump and the standard bearer for Republican support of Israel. Zeldin is speaking in a primetime slot on Wednesday evening during the Republican National Convention. He is currently one of two Jewish…
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to call for the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol complex. The measure passed 305-113. Every Democratic member of Congress, including the 26 Jewish Democrats in the House, voted in favor, while the Republican caucus was split about evenly. The House’s two Jewish Republicans, Reps. Lee Zeldin…
Congressman Lee Zeldin is a Republican in the very blue state of New York. The Jewish politician won a third term in the House by only four points in 2018. Yet Zeldin has seized the spotlight in the season of impeachment by defending Donald Trump — reviled by liberals — and criticizing the Jewish Democrat…
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is emerging as one of Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) harshest critics as the latter pursues an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. it’s not a storybook kind. Though fairy tales have been invoked. On Tuesday at the Capitol, Zeldin accused Schiff, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, of forwarding a “Fairy…
Congress has hundreds of caucuses, collections of politicians with common interests in everything under the sun –- the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Medicare for All Caucus, the Chicken Caucus. On Monday, a new, bipartisan caucus was announced, one that hopes to rebuild a historic alliance that has lately seen some tensions: the Congressional Caucus on…
An imam who has been praised for his social justice work but criticized for his statements about Israel delivered the daily prayer at the House of Representatives on Thursday. Omar Suleiman, the founder and president of the Dallas-based Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, was introduced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after having been sponsored by…
It’s not quite the 1856 Brooks–Sumner Affair, when a pro-slavery congressman nearly beat to death an abolitionist senator with a cane. But Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Lee Zeldin of New York have not been afraid the past two weeks to have a war of words. Omar, a Democrat who this year became the…
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