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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to the media, following a meeting with fellow Republicans on the day where a potential government shutdown looms during the holidays, after a spending bill backed by US President-elect Donald Trump failed in the US House of Representatives, on Capitol Hi

US Congress approves stopgap bill to avoid government shutdown

A COALITION of pro-Palestinian students at the University of Michigan and other supporters protest in the street, in Dearborn, last May. Last weekend, a student was attacked off campus for answering ‘yes’ in response to the question ‘are you Jewish?’

House Republican staff report outlines efforts to fight college campus antisemitism

By HANNAH SARISOHN

US SENATE Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, last week.

Chuck Schumer reelected head of Senate Democrats — but this time as minority leader

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI, a Republican from Alaska, says she will vote against confirming any Trump nominee who has not had a full FBI vetting, the writer notes.

Trump’s second term begins with divisive decisions and unforced errors

By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD

Members of the House of Representatives vote for the third time on whether to elevate House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) to Speaker of the House in the U.S. Capitol on October 20, 2023 in Washington, DC.

Bill to revoke tax-exempt status of terror-supporting NGOs fails to pass US House

By Mathilda Heller

Members of the 118th Congress raise their right hands as they are sworn into office to serve in the US House of Representatives on the fourth day of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, US, January 7, 2023.

Involving US troops in Israeli conflicts requires congressional approval, House lawmakers argue

By Svetlana Shkolnikova/ TNS

US HOUSE SPEAKER Mike Johnson speaks to the media following the passage of a stopgap bill to keep the federal government funded for another three months and avert a month-end partial shutdown, at the Capitol.

American voters, this current failed Congress wants your votes

By DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD

US Representative George Santos (R-NY) walks to a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, January 12, 2023.

Expelled former congressman Santos pleads guilty to corruption charges

By REUTERS

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office yesterday.

US House Republicans say Biden committed impeachable offenses

By REUTERS

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle exits after testifying before a House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing on the security lapses that allowed an attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, July 22, 2024.

US Secret Service chief resigns following Trump assassination attempt

By REUTERS

U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) speaks prior to U.S. President Joe Biden delivering remarks on the federal government's debt limit during a visit to SUNY Westchester Community College Valhalla in Valhalla, New York, U.S., May 10, 2023.

Congressman Bowman's defeat reveals divisions in Democratic party over Israel policy

By JPOST EDITORIAL

U.S. President Joe Biden remains in the nearly empty chamber greeting members of Congress following his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2024.

Is a bill targeting support for terrorism a necessary tool post-Oct. 7, or authoritarian overreach?

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

U.S. President Joe Biden remains in the nearly empty chamber greeting members of Congress following his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2024.

GOP Congressman to ‘Post’: Bipartisan support for Israel goes back years, ‘I hope it doesn’t stop'

By HANNAH SARISOHN

Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy and Representative James Comer in the Congressman Elijah Cummings Committee hearing room at the United States House of Representatives, May 7, 2024.

Closed-door US House briefing on campus antisemitism hosts ISGAP exec

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

US Senator Bernie Sanders addresses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement posted to X, Thursday, April 25, 2024.

Bernie Sanders, 82, announces run for a fourth Senate term

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

US REP. Marjorie Taylor Greene stands next to House Speaker Mike Johnson, earlier this month. Greene has been working to punish Johnson for passing the four-part foreign aid package, the writer notes.

House passes bill that would enshrine IHRA definition into US law

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Congressman Ritchie Torres visiting Israel's south

Ritchie Torres, Mike Lawler introduce bill to create campus antisemitism monitors

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

US Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, US June 8, 2022.

Chairman of House Education Committee to Columbia president: We will hold you accountable

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF