The Congressional Jewish Caucus becomes official
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Rep. Jerry Nadler at a hearing on Capitol Hill on Nov. 20, 2024. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images.
A group of Jewish House members voted Thursday to officially launch the Congressional Jewish Caucus after more than a year of internal tension surrounding its formation.
Why it matters: Groups such as the congressional Black, Hispanic and Asian-Pacific Islander caucuses are able to exert considerable power by acting as a bloc.
Driving the news: Wasserman Schultz and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said in a statement the caucus will serve as "an official forum for Jewish Members of Congress to exchange ideas and advocate for the issues important to the American Jewish community."
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) moved to create the caucus in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel in the hopes of giving Jewish lawmakers greater representation in Congress.
Zoom in: The question of whether to form a formal Jewish Caucus has been a point of contention for years among Jewish lawmakers, who have often met as an informal Jewish members' working group.
- It will also be a "bridge to other members and organizations within the House," they added.
- Wasserman Schultz moved to nominate Nadler and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) as the co-chairs of the caucus, and they were unanimously elected by the members.
- There were roughly 20 members at the meeting, a spokesperson for Nadler told Axios.
- Wasserman Schultz ruffled feathers by moving to form the caucus in November 2023 following an Israel aid vote that split moderate and progressive Jewish Democrats.
- Nadler, a progressive and the de facto head of the informal Jewish working group as the longest-serving Jewish member of Congress, had initially opposed creating the caucus.
Zoom in: One major difference between the Jewish Caucus other groups like the Black Caucus is that the former is likely to be bipartisan.
What they're saying: "I am confident this caucus will bring Jewish members together to strive to achieve unity not unanimity, and will be a productive forum," Nadler said in a statement.
- Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), one of three Jewish Republicans in Congress, has said he plans to join.
- He added: I look forward to our discussions and exchanging
our many perspectives. After all, as the old adage goes: two Jews, three opinions."
It's not meant to be forever. The US needs to get control of their aid programs and trade agreements, and focus on fixing the damage that's been done to the country since the year 2000. Once the US has recovered, the budget is balanced, and her enemies are cut off from the gravy train, the US will slowly and carefully start taking a more active part in international affairs again.
None of these should be allowed to exist.
Abe is going to reincarnate as Baron's first child. Calling it now. Screenshot this post.
Again, smaller targets that aren't necessarily always in the limelight. Actually pulling off a presidential assassination in the year of our lord 2025 without immediately getting burned back and then some? Good luck.
Why would they? Too many would suspect foul play, and JD wouldn't err much from Trump. They'd have to take out JD too, and that would move suspicions of foul play to certainties. I think what would lead from there is much more likely to end poorly for those involved than for it to end well for them.
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that tweet is so crazy its insane he's admitting that whatever faggot auditors the government uses saw all this shit our tax dollars are being wasted on and was like "ok"
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First offence is a misdemeanor, second is a felony worth up to like 10 years in FDC.
If their constituency is majority that race then whatever, but it would be nice to live in a world where joining such a caucus was electoral poison. You're admitting you're better qualified to represent constituents of your own race; political opponents should bring that up as a point against you, and you'd get primaried by all the other races you betrayed by essentially caucusing against them.
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She was the one that basically led to the raid on MAL From what I can remember, when a president leaves the White House the head of NARA will help go through documents and box up the stuff so classified documents don't get mixed up in personal belongings. When Trump left in 2021, she refused to do that. So Trump ended up with secret documents mixed with his personal documents. She then started bitching and complaining about all the missing documents from the archives. Trump sent a bunch back, but she sent them back for whatever reason(we all know why). This then led to her and Trump's people going back and forth about the documents and then Biden giving the greenlight to raid MAL.
I'm more concerned with them trying (again), and failing (again); and that being the last bit of reality that breaks the minds of already demoralized delusional bloodthirsty liberals. How far before these types start to snap in mass, and start shooting up churches, and people they think are Trump supporters?
