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u.s. house of representatives
Senate introduces bipartisan bill with new Iran sanctions on eve of AIPAC conference
Ron Kampeas, JTA
March 23, 2017
Meet the Republican congressman who calls for a settlement freeze
Aaron Magid, Jewish Insider
March 21, 2017
House approves increase of $455M for Israeli missile defense
jacobk
June 16, 2016
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $576 billion defense spending bill, including $635.7 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense programs, defying the Obama administration’s concerns and threat to veto the bill.
House passes bill protecting circumcision, ritual slaughter as religious freedoms
Jewish Journal
May 18, 2016
A bill unanimously approved by the U.S. House of Representatives would extend religious protections to advocates of circumcision and ritual slaughter as well as atheists, addressing what its sponsors describe as an increase in religious persecution in recent years.
Maryland’s wild primary and other snapshots from the ‘other’ Super Tuesday
Jewish Journal
April 26, 2016
Maryland goes to the polls Tuesday – one of five states where the two remaining candidates in the Democratic presidential race and the three in the Republican race are facing off.
Under pressure from the right, House Speaker Boehner quits
Jewish Journal
September 25, 2015
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner will step down and leave Congress at the end of October after struggling with repeated rebellions by conservatives during a tumultuous five-year reign as the chamber\’s top Republican.
Now Boehner can tell us what really happened with Netanyahu’s speech
Jewish Journal
September 25, 2015
John Boehner, the Republican from Ohio who is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, is quitting politics.
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