Wendy Sherman said "This was not a pro-Israel bill. Instead it was a poorly drafted, rush-to-the-floor, strictly partisan messaging bill that distracts the world from the hypocrisy of the ICC and focuses us instead on a supposedly pro-Israel, performatively pro-Israel Republican bill. We will have to vote ``no,'' and then we will have to work later to demonstrate how wrong and how putrid the action of the ICC is. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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This was not a pro-Israel bill. Instead it was a poorly drafted, rush-to-the-floor, strictly partisan messaging bill that distracts the world from the hypocrisy of the ICC and focuses us instead on a supposedly pro-Israel, performatively pro-Israel Republican bill. We will have to vote ``no,'' and then we will have to work later to demonstrate how wrong and how putrid the action of the ICC is. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

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