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What happens if Congress goes nuts on tax cuts without paying for them? Kansas, which did just that, has now had to raise State taxes back to where they were, providing a valuable object lesson for Congress right now: tax cuts about…
I think we need to revisit the entire concept of having a kind of permanent de facto embassy to a Palestinian state that doesn't exist yet.
The fundamental misconception about the potential impact of an embassy move, which assumes in part that the United States today is in equipoise between the Palestinians and the State of Israel.
The way to break through that, and I do think it is scholasticism, as I said in my testimony, is to move forward with actually relocating the embassy, acknowledging the reality that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
I think the embassy move has been given a symbolic significance well in excess of its practical effects.
I think specifically in terms of Gaza and the West Bank, I really think that the United States is taking advantage of a potential for a reopening of the peace process.
I would break it immediately and establish a new reality.
I think it's very important that we understand that the country in the world most sensitive to the regime in Jordan, most aware of the implications for security, is Israel.
The greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East remains the Iranian nuclear weapons program
Mass deportation of Temporary Protected Status recipients today would disrupt our country and theirs. More than 32,000 Salvadorans live in the District of Columbia metro area; and Salvadorans, at 200,000, are the largest group of TPS…
I don't think, I frankly, personally don't think he should do that. I don't see the intrinsic gain by putting him back on the terrorist list.
I would just accept that, try to cap it -- try to stop the tests and then enter into some dialogue with them.
I think it would have been useful assuming there were no inflammatory rhetoric while he was up there.
I think as everyone -- most everyone is, that he will adapt a more conciliatory tone as was indicated in his press conference.
Why supplies aren't pre-positioned there, so that this kind of a dispute, which is predictable, about getting to the islands does not come up.
I will call preparation for the inevitable.
I'm hopeful that we'll learn something about the psychology of people that get caught up and become radicalized.