Members on the Record (Automated) for Tue April 12, 2022

Israel - Palestine

Deutch (D-FL-22) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “The U.S. stands ready to work w/@noatishby, Israel's first Antisemitism Envoy, to combat antisemitism and delegitimization of Israel worldwide. See the full statement from all 8 co-Chairs of the House Antisemitism Task Force here: Link to image”

Granger (R-TX-12) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @RepTedDeutch – “The U.S. stands ready to work w/@noatishby, Israel's first Antisemitism Envoy, to combat antisemitism and delegitimization of Israel worldwide. See the full statement from all 8 co-Chairs of the House Antisemitism Task Force here: Link to image”

Higgins (D-NY-26) 04/11/2022: Retweet of @news4buffalo – “Buffalo South District Councilman Chris Scanlon and Congressman Brian Higgins announced the funding to determine if a riverwalk along the west bank of the Buffalo River could be expanded. Higgins, Scanlon and Buffalo Niagara Waterkeepers announce riverwalk study... | bit.ly”

Hoyer (D-MD-5) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “I am pleased to see @noatishby, a tireless advocate for Israel and its people, named as the first Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism & the Delegitimization of Israel. I am thankful to my friend @YairLapid for his leadership in creating this role. Link to quoted tweetI'm proud to name @NoaTishby as the first-ever @IsraelMFA Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism & the Delegitimization of Israel. In this new role, Noa will be a powerful voice in the fight against the rising tide of hate directed at Jews and the State of Israel. (Link to twitter.com)”

Lieu (D-CA-33) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @RepTedDeutch – “The U.S. stands ready to work w/@noatishby, Israel's first Antisemitism Envoy, to combat antisemitism and delegitimization of Israel worldwide. See the full statement from all 8 co-Chairs of the House Antisemitism Task Force here: Link to image”

Rubio (R-FL) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “You are my servant,in you, Israel, I show my glory. Isaiah 49:3”

Scott (R-FL) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @Jerusalem_Post – “#Republican senators Rick Scott and Mike Braun introduced a bill to prohibit @Amnesty International from receiving "taxpayer-funded federal assistance and benefits from the #UnitedStates government." Republican senators write bill to prohibit Amnesty from receiving funds... | jpost.com”

Tlaib (D-MI-13) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @usembassyzambia – “Meet @RepRashida, who made history in 2019 when she became the first woman of Palestinian descent in Congress, the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan legislature, and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, along with @Ilhan. #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth Link to image”

Torres (D-NY-15) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “My dear friend, @NoaTishby, is fierce, formidable, and fabulous. A true Renaissance woman—actress, author, activist—Noa has emerged as one of the leading voices against Anti-semitism in the world. Congratulations, Noa, on an appointment richly deserved and urgently needed. Link to quoted tweetI'm proud to name @NoaTishby as the first-ever @IsraelMFA Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism & the Delegitimization of Israel. In this new role, Noa will be a powerful voice in the fight against the rising tide of hate directed at Jews and the State of Israel. (Link to twitter.com)”

Syria

Hill (R-AR-2) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “The numbers coming out of Mairupol are shocking and reminiscent of the same playbook Putin and his friend the butcher Assad used in Syria against the Syrian people. Republican Congressman French Hill weighs in on Russia's war in Ukraine... | cbsnews.com”

Kinzinger (R-IL-16) 04/11/2022: Twitter thread – “I certainly hope if it's true that #ChemicalWeapons were used today, that this would be a red line. #ukraine fights for us all. @POTUS 2/ It's not confirmed, but important to note while evidence is gathered that the new commander for Russia has used them in Syria. We need to make it clear they cannot be used again”

Omar (D-MN-5) 04/11/2022: Retweet of @ANCA_DC – “Thank you Congresswoman Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN for supporting the #ArmenianGenocideEducationAct, a bipartisan measure funding educational programs ($10 million) about Turkey's #genocide (1915-1923) against #Armenian #Greek #Assyrian #Chaldean #Syriac #Aramean #Maronite nations. Link to image”

Risch (R-ID) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “While Gen. Dvornikov might be new to #Russia's war on #Ukraine, he is not new to the int'l community. For years, he's helped #Assad murder countless civilians by means of terrorism, torture, rape, & nerve agents in #Syria. There must be accountability for #RussianWarCrimes Link to quoted tweetRussia's reported appointment of Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, who has a history of targeting civilians, to take over operations in Ukraine marks what some military analysts see as an indication that Russia intends to terrorize civilians as the war progresses. (Russia appoints general with cruel history to oversee Ukraine offensive... | nbcnews.to)”

Waltz (R-FL-6) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “Escalating to WMDs is part of Russian doctrine. They've used them before in Syria & I wouldn't be surprised if they did again in Ukraine. Biden should be setting redlines for chemical weapons that if Putin crosses, would risk direct US involvement. We must start deterring Putin. Link to video”

Iran

Bacon (R-NE-2) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @IAC_NE – “Such a strong message to @POTUS. #IRGC poses a serious threat to our national security and must remain on the FTO list. Our community support the statement released by over 500 Iranian-American professionals. @StateDept @RepDonBacon @OWHnews Over 500 Iranian American professionals urge Biden to keep Revolutiona... | washingtontimes.com”

Hagerty (R-TN) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “Why does Biden keep giving Iran a free pass? | @dcexaminer Why does Biden keep giving Iran a free pass?... | washingtonexaminer.com”

Hyde-Smith (R-MS) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is responsible for hundreds of American deaths & remains a threat to US interests. @SenatorWicker & I added our voices to the call for @POTUS to categorically reject any discussion of delisting the IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.”

Kennedy (R-LA) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is responsible for hundreds of American deaths and is actively trying to kill our public servants on U.S. soil. Pres. Biden must make it clear that IRGC belongs on the Foreign Terrorist Organization list. Kennedy, senators urge Biden not to remove Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from terrorist list... | kennedy.senate.gov”

Stefanik (R-NY-21) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is a TERRORIST organization that is responsible for killing over 600 Americans. Chris Murphy's lobbying to lift sanctions on the IRGC is disgusting and disqualifying. Murphy Under Fire for Pushing to Lift Sanctions on Top Iranian Terror Group... | freebeacon.com”

Tuberville (R-AL) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “Further proof that reviving the Iran Deal is a bad idea… Exposed: The Russian Companies That Will Get Billions from New Iran Nuclear Deal... | freebeacon.com”

Wicker (R-MS) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “.@POTUS' plan would fall especially hard on our Navy fleet, which has been underfunded for years. With additional threats emerging from Russia and Iran, the Navy needs a concerted shipbuilding effort with strong and consistent funding. #WickerReport Wicker: Defense Budget Is Recipe for U.S. Decline - U.S. Senator Roger Wicker”

Wicker (R-MS) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans. I joined a letter with @SenHydeSmith warning @POTUS that de-listing the group as foreign terrorists in exchange for an Iran deal would be a grave mistake. Wicker, Hyde-Smith Protest Delisting of Iranian Terror Group - U.S. Senator Roge...”

Young (R-IN) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “The president came into office promising a "longer and stronger" deal with Iran, but this is weaker and shorter. Read why we need to reject this proposed agreement here: Biden's Iran deal would create a foreign policy disaster for US and hand Xi, Putin, Khamenei a major victory... | foxnews.com”

Saudi Arabia

Cicilline (D-RI-1) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “Truly shocking, I know. Another Trump cashing in on the Trump Presidency. Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts... | nytimes.com”

Cohen (D-TN-9) 04/11/2022: Retweet of @RepCohen – “He was bailed on 666 fifth ave. by Middle East money and now 2BILLION$ from Saudi's .When he and Crown Prince met state dept.personnel were not allowed to monitor meetings!Stinks! Link to quoted tweet”

Long (R-MO-7) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @ClayTravis – “Saudi Arabian comedians are ridiculing Joe Biden. Link to video”

Bahrain

Gonzales (R-TX-23) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “Last week I had the honor of meeting with Bahraini Ambassador to the U.S., Abdulla Al Khalifa. We discussed ways we can work to strengthen economic relations between the U.S. and Bahrain. Link to image”

Horn of Africa

Tlaib (D-MI-13) 04/11/2022: Retweet of @amnesty – “Amhara security forces & officials in #Ethiopia's Western #Tigray Zone, have carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign against #Tigrayans in the area, amounting to crimes against humanity and war crimes. Read our joint report with @hrw. Crimes Against Humanity in Ethiopia's Western Tigray Zone... | amnesty.org”

Jewish, Anti-semitism

Davidson (R-OH-8) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “#SadNews “Hebrew Union College was founded in Cincinnati in 1875 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. It is the nation's oldest Jewish seminary and has trained rabbis for all American congregations for nearly 150 years.” 147-year residential rabbinical program closes in Cincinnati | cincinnati.com”

Kelly (D-AZ) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “Gerda Weissmann Klein's perseverance and hope will continue to be a source of inspiration for many Arizonans. @GabbyGiffords and I send our heartfelt condolences to her loved ones. Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein dies at 97 in Phoenix... | azcentral.com”

Schumer (D-NY) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “The anti-Semitic rhetoric and tropes used by a speaker at the recent Rockville Centre village board meeting are offensive and disturbing. We must never stop working to root out antisemitism, bigotry, and hate. Antisemitism has no place in America.”

Schumer (D-NY) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “I was thrilled to join the Passover food distribution in Williamsburg with my friends Rabbi Niederman, @UnitedJewish, @MetCouncil and so many others to help families prepare for the holiday. To everyone getting ready to celebrate Passover, Chag Sameach! Link to image”

Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-23) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “On this day in 1945, American soldiers liberated Buchenwald. As we remember the atrocities of the Holocaust, it is our responsibility to speak out against antisemitism and hate of all kinds. #NeverForget #NeverAgain”

Young (R-IN) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “Visited with students at @IUBloomington's Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. I proudly stand with the strong Jewish Hoosier community against antisemitism. Link to image”

Young (R-IN) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @WISH_TV – “A series of antisemitic incidents on Indiana University's campus have caught the attention of Sen. Todd Young. Sen. Todd Young visits IU students after antisemitic incidents... | wishtv.com”

Afghanistan

Bacon (R-NE-2) 04/12/2022: Twitter thread – “The inflation report is crushing to working families across #NE02. The feckless policies of the Biden admin are directly to blame having resulted in the highest inflation in over 40 years! Please join me and the @gop to #TakeBacktheHouse and #FirePelosi. Inflation surges 8.5% in March, hitting a new 40-year high... | foxbusiness.com   Link to reply@Tomaandp @Billp1802 @DonJBacon @GOP It certainly isn't bidens @eaarent @Tomaandp @Billp1802 @GOP Inflation was already skyrocketing before the invasion of Ukraine. Link to reply@Billp1802 @DonJBacon @Tomaandp @GOP Biden did not start conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Some people just want to blame him for everything lol. And again, if you think there was peace while 45 was in office you weren't paying attention. @eaarent @Billp1802 @Tomaandp @GOP He was too late, too little and too weak with the military aid to Ukraine prior to the invasion. Putin gauged him as being too timid after Afghanistan as well.”

Bacon (R-NE-2) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @EWErickson – “The incompetence of the Afghan withdrawal coupled with the White House insistence that inflation would be “transitory” all but make it impossible for Biden to improve his standing with the public. There is a trust gap his behaviors keep reinforcing. This will hurt his party.”

Blumenthal (D-CT) 04/11/2022: Twitter thread – “For 2 decades, Afghan translators, interpreters, & guards for the U.S. mission provided our soldiers & diplomats w/invaluable support. As they sought refuge from assured torture & death by the Taliban, Americans back home stepped up to protect the allies that once protected them. This resolution is a tribute to the heroic actions of our nation's veterans & civilian volunteers whose relentless work saved the lives of countless Afghan allies. Link to image”

Cammack (R-FL-3) 04/12/2022: Tweet – “I joined @MatureAmericans last week on the Better for America Podcast to talk all about what's happening in our country, from Biden's blunders at the border to his disastrous foreign policy in Afghanistan and Ukraine. Tune in! ⬇️ Better for America Podcast: Assault on Our Nation with Congresswoman Kat Cammack - AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens”

Frankel (D-FL-21) 04/11/2022: Retweet of @RepSpeier – “My @DemWomenCaucus colleagues & I just sent a letter to @POTUS urging him to defend the rights of girls in Afghanistan to secondary education. The US & our partners must hold the Taliban to account if it doesn't reverse course on its barbaric policy now. Democratic Women's Caucus Leadership Urges White House to Defend Afghan Girls' Access to Education... | speier.house.gov”

Gosar (R-AZ-4) 04/11/2022: Retweet of @joekent16jan19 – “The case to impeach Biden could not be clearer. He invited the invasion of our country, he abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. Weak republicans are not up to this fight. We need warriors not country club glad handers, they got us to this point & have failed us.”

Hawley (R-MO) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “Senator Hawley called out the Biden Administration, noting “not a single Administration official has been fired or held accountable for their role in the Afghanistan withdrawal disaster, which resulted in the loss of 13 American service members..." Hawley bashes Biden's foreign policy debacles – Newstalk KZRG... | newstalkkzrg.com”

Johnson (R-OH-6) 04/12/2022: Twitter thread – “"...the product of a seven-month investigation by the Opinion Video team of The New York Times reveals that nearly 500 former government officials and members of the Afghan security forces were killed or forcibly disappeared during the Taliban's first six months in power." We have only just begun to see the consequences of the Biden Administration's failed withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Administration's Afghanistan failure has caused a growing humanitarian crisis, along with provoking Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. Afghans who assisted our nation do not deserve to be abandoned like this. What a terrible message it sends to our friends around the world. More must be done - we cannot forget about them. More here: @nytimes Opinion | The Taliban Promised Them Amnesty. Then They Executed Them.”

Speier (D-CA-14) 04/11/2022: Tweet – “My @DemWomenCaucus colleagues & I just sent a letter to @POTUS urging him to defend the rights of girls in Afghanistan to secondary education. The US & our partners must hold the Taliban to account if it doesn't reverse course on its barbaric policy now. Democratic Women's Caucus Leadership Urges White House to Defend Afghan Girls' Access to Education... | speier.house.gov”

Other - Middle East

Waltz (R-FL-6) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @cspan – “Today on C-SPAN: 10am - Conversation with Rep. @michaelgwaltz, @MiddleEastInst 2pm - Armed Conflict & Food Insecurity @TLHumanRights 3:45pm - President Biden on Infrastructure & Lowering Costs in Menlo, IA 7pm - Former VP @Mike_Pence speaks at @yaf event in Charlottesville, VA Link to image”

Waltz (R-FL-6) 04/12/2022: Retweet of @MiddleEastInst – “Thank you to @michaelgwaltz and Bilal Saab for a wide ranging discussion on U.S.-Middle East policy under the Biden administration. ICYMI, view the full webinar on our website. MEI Defense Leadership Series: Episode 17 with Congressman Mike Waltz... | mei.edu”