In our latest edition, we have an interview with Rep. Tim Walberg, a leaked position paper from a top House Democratic candidate, op-eds from Reps. Darrell Issa and Mike Lawler about Israel and combatting anti-Semitism, and much more.
By: Matthew Foldi
Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.) will make the Education and Workforce Committee a leading committee next Congress if he has his say, he told the Washington Reporter in an exclusive interview.
“Ed and Workforce is key to all that America is made to be,” Walberg, who is running to chair the committee in 2025, said. “Education should have one goal in mind…it should provide the ability for people to work. As simple as that: educate to work. And right now we have kind of lost that. We need to bridge the gap between the needs of the workforce and job creators and our higher education. Bring business, the workforce entity, into the education entity, making them work together.”
Most Americans started tuning into the Ed and Workforce Committee, which is responsible for the ouster of multiple college presidents at elite universities, following the terrorist attacks of October 7. But for Walberg, the attacks didn’t change what the committee has aimed to do for years: expose “the rot that’s in our higher education institution system.”
Click HERE to read more from Rep. Tim Walberg about everything from electric vehicles to student loans to China, and why he wants to be the next chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee.
What are some of those Biden Department of Labor regulations that you want to push back on? And what do you hope to see from a Trump Department of Labor?
Matthew Foldi
Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Reporter
Where do I start…Overtime rule. That takes away the opportunity for college students on up to have a position that expands their capabilities for the future. It’s hurtful, so the overtime rule is something we need to push back on. We also want to push back on their attacks on association health plans. Trump saw the rationality in that. We tried to pass legislation, I’ve led the fight in Congress, but Trump did it through executive action. Then Biden comes in and does away with that, we have to make that permanent. That speaks to the benefits and the opportunities for individuals. Things like the Walkaround rule. We all want safe job sites, but having a rule that permits an otherwise unauthorized and unqualified person to accompany a workplace inspection, is not the way to go. We’ve also talked about joint employer, independent contractor rule, taking away opportunities for individuals to succeed in their chosen profession. Taking away flexibility and really hurting our small businesses.
Rep. Tim Walberg
(R.,Mich.)
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By: Matthew Foldi
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) caved to pressure from the White House and Senate Democrats who urged him to delay his latest attack on Israel until after the election — in exchange for more Democratic votes, multiple sources confirmed to the Washington Reporter.
Sanders’s latest publicity stunts have taken the form of a series of Joint Resolutions of Disapproval of recent arms shipments to Israel; they have been signed onto by only three other anti-Israel Senators: Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii), Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.), and Peter Welch (D., Vt.); not all signed onto every Sanders measure.
The Vermont lawmaker introduced these measures as Congress was poised to recess before the election, leaving insufficient time for a vote. The primary arms sale that Sanders and his colleagues are objecting to was notified to Congress over two weeks before theirs measure was introduced, further suggesting that politics were at play in when they timed their Joint Resolution of Disapproval’s drop. Sanders waited over a week after its notification to announce his “intention” to push back against the arms sales.
Click HERE to read more about why Sen. Bernie Sanders caved to pressure from the White House on his latest anti-Israel measure.
By: Matthew Foldi
Nebraska Democratic congressional candidate Tony Vargas wants Israel’s capital city to be divided, his leaked position paper obtained by the Washington Reporter reveals.
Vargas, who has spent much of his campaign against Rep. Don Bacon (R., Neb.) on the defensive over reports that he assaulted a taxi driver, wants a “shared capital for both Israel and a future Palestinian state in Jerusalem,” he says in his paper.
Vargas’s website mentions no foreign policy positions, and the New Yorker-turned-Nebraskan “hasn’t been very forthcoming on Israel,” Townhall reported.
Click HERE to learn more about how General Don Bacon and Democrat Tony Vargas completely differ on support for our ally, Israel.
By: Matthew Foldi
Far-left Hill staff are urging their colleagues to submit “dissent memos” advocating for America to abandon Israel as the Middle Eastern war expands.
The effort, which received positive coverage from the New York Times over the summer, has yet to yield results. One veteran Hill staffer told the Washington Reporter: “I saw more effective resistance protesting the closure of &pizza in Rayburn.”
Anti-Israel staffers have attempted to steer their bosses away from America’s strongest ally in the region, sending out at least nine “urgent request[s]” last month, per records reviewed by the Reporter.
Click HERE to read more about how anti-Israel staff are trying to sabotage their bosses.
By: Matthew Foldi
A purportedly independent Senate candidate who is being supported by hundreds of thousands of dollars from Democratic Party donors “needs a civics lesson” and some foreign policy primers, according to his Republican opponent.
Sen. Deb Fischer (R., Neb.) is facing a challenge from Dan Osborn, who is running as an independent despite the financial support he receives from some of the nation’s leading progressive groups. In advance of the anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks, Fischer blasted Osborn’s record on foreign policy. “I don’t know where he stands on the war in the Middle East,” she said.
Click HERE to read more about how the Democrats’ favored Senate candidate in Nebraska is failing foreign policy tests.
By: Rep. Darrell Issa
On October 7, 2023, I was getting ready to board a flight from Saudi Arabia to Israel along with several of my colleagues on a Congressional delegation. Then came the first reports and the continuing confirmations of the brutal and deadly attacks by Hamas that killed more than a thousand Israelis and saw hundreds more dragged into Gaza to be held as hostages. Our hearts sank with the realization that this was Israel’s 9/11. We were redirected back to the United States.
But we weren’t there long. I returned to Israel alongside my friend Sen. Joni Ernst and once there we immediately visited the kibbutzim ravaged by the terrorists who carried out an unprovoked slaughter of civilians. We saw the blood stains and bullet holes on the walls of homes, while others were completely burned to the ground. We saw the ransacked possessions of the residents, and the scattered toys of children. We were shown residences and told “there were no survivors.”
One year later — and with the support of its strongest friends — Israel has rallied and rebuilt, answered anguish with action, and turned the tide against terror. It is a remarkable achievement that may indeed be the hinge of history turning.
Some today call for a cease-fire. But when has Hezbollah ceased fire? Every day, what is left of Hamas continues to fire. Now Iran is launching deadly missile attacks directly at Israel’s most populous cities. The fact is, Israel has no record of attacking its neighbors, but only punching back.
Click HERE to read more from Rep. Darrell Issa about why Israel must win this war.
By: Rep. Mike Lawler
Today marks the first anniversary of the worst mass murder of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust. On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists launched a brutal and unprovoked attack on Israel, murdering over a thousand innocent men, women, and children, sexually abusing many and taking hundreds hostage.
Among those butchered and taken captive were dozens of Americans. We must stand with our close ally in its time of need and support them as they fight not only to rescue their citizens who were taken by Hamas, but ours as well.
I have met with family members of Americans and Israelis whose relatives were killed or taken hostage by Hamas — in New York, in Washington, and in Israel. I have traveled to Israel twice in my official capacity during my first term in office.
Click HERE to read more from Rep. Mike Lawler about his record of bipartisan achievements in combatting anti-Semitism in America and abroad.
By: Bonnie Glick
We have all heard the question from our Republican friends: “why do Jews, in such large percentages, insist on voting for Democrats when two things are clear: first, that the Democratic Party has abandoned its side of the bipartisan support for Israel and second, that the radical Left that has hijacked today’s Democratic Party uses its power to undercut the institutions that Jews believe in and helped to build: businesses, universities, the U.S.-Israel relationship, and even the law itself?”
Our response to these Republican friends was laid bare on October 7, 2023. We found ourselves answering, “we have no idea why they tend to vote for the Democrats, but we’re going to do our level best to ensure that they know the costs of doing so this election.”
The world was caught by surprise and aghast on October 7, 2023. The most brutal attack against Jews (and non-Jews) since the Nazi Holocaust of World War Two was carried out in one day with thousands of terrorists and civilians invading southern Israel from the Gaza Strip intent on wanton slaughter, gang rape, kidnapping, theft, and destruction.
Click HERE to read more about the stakes of the 2024 election for American Jews.
By: Michael Chamberlain
“A government of laws, not of men.” John Adams’s vision for the United States seems kind of quaint in these days when “mostly peaceful” demonstrations come with arson, body counts, and multi-million-dollar property damage. Our laws are enforced selectively — especially, it seems, when it’s the Department of the Interior (DOI) and its National Park Service (NPS) doing the enforcing.
When most Americans hear the words Department of the Interior, they think of the people in charge of managing our national parks and lands. While that is part of what DOI does, an equally important aspect of the mission of the department is preserving our cultural heritage through the NPS and the U.S. Park Police (USPP).
Unfortunately, under the current Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, NPS has failed in both of these missions, most spectacularly the latter. These failures by the agency drove Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) to file a complaint with the DOI inspector general’s office regarding multiple incidents of DOI’s dereliction of duty in protecting our nation’s cultural heritage, not to mention the safety of law enforcement and civilians, in the Washington, D.C. area.
Click HERE to read more from Protect the Public’s Trust’s Michael Chamberlain about the failures of Secretary Deb Haaland to prosecute criminals who ransack American cities.
