Author: Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner

Bipartisan coalitions of senators came together on Wednesday to urge the safe return of the over 100 Americans that Hamas has held hostage since the group’s terror attack in Israel earlier this month. The Senate has made Israel a top priority this week after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lambasted the media on Wednesday over its bungled and confusing reporting on who was responsible for Tuesday’s deadly airstrike on a Christian hospital in Gaza. Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group behind the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, immediately blamed the hospital strike on the Israelis, which the majority of…

The Senate is operating with a heavy workload this week as it races to confirm the nominee for Israeli ambassador, organize a larger defense spending bill, and begin passing appropriations bills ahead of the deadline to avert a government shutdown. All the while, the House remains in “disarray” over its inability to elect a speaker,…

EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is accusing Democrats of caring more about abortion than national security, arguing that the party is only supporting the Pentagon’s abortion policy because it helps them electorally. Tuberville took aim at Democrats’ primary criticism of his controversial monthslong hold on Pentagon confirmations in an interview with the Washington Examiner on…

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will not attend Wednesday’s classified briefing on Israel as a result of his latest indictment accusing him of being an unregistered foreign agent for Egypt. Federal prosecutors accused Menendez and his wife of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act to work on behalf of the government of Egypt in a superseding…

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said on Monday that he has “been loyal to only one country in the world for 50 years,” rejecting federal prosecutors’ claim that he has been acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Egypt. Asked by reporters in the Capitol on Monday about the superseding indictment, which accuses him of violating…

The Senate will not wait for the House to select a speaker to move forward with an aid package for Israel, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Monday. Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish leader in the U.S. government, unveiled plans for the Senate to vote on a resolution condemning Hamas “in the coming days”…

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Rafah border crossing will be reopened following his meeting on Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. There are only three ways out of Gaza — the two border crossings with Israel and the third, the border with Rafah, Egypt — all of which…

A notice sent out by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer‘s (R-MN) office told House Republicans to expect the first floor votes of the week on Tuesday, Oct. 17. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and his allies have been pushing for the Tuesday floor vote to give the GOP speaker nominee time to meet…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and a bipartisan delegation of his colleagues were rushed to a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday after rockets were launched by Hamas. Schumer and the group, which includes Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), were set to deliver…