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      Citing His 'Alarming Disregard' for the Law, House Committee Launches Contempt Proceedings Against Pompeo

      Citing His 'Alarming Disregard' for the Law, House Committee Launches Contempt Proceedings Against Pompeo

      "You don't get to repeatedly defy congressional subpoenas and undermine the Constitution with no consequences," said Rep. Ilhan Omar.

      Jake Johnson
      Aug 28, 2020

      The Democrat-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee announced Friday that it is launching contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his "alarming disregard" for the law and ongoing defiance of subpoenas for documents in two separate investigations.

      Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement that Pompeo "seems to think the office he holds, the department he runs, the personnel he oversees, and the taxpayer dollars that pay for all of it are there for his personal and political benefit."

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      The Democrat's Hawkish, Dead-End Foreign Policy Is Also Very Bad Politics

      The Democrat's Hawkish, Dead-End Foreign Policy Is Also Very Bad Politics

      Is the party finally willing to recognize the failures—both morally and politically—of its pro-war stance?

      Stephen Miles
      Jul 03, 2020

      For three years, my organization, Win Without War, and others helped pro-diplomacy activists make their voices heard in Congress in support of President Obama's diplomatic efforts with Iran. Hundreds of thousands of them had done just that -- signing petitions, writing emails, making phone calls, and meeting face-to-face with their representatives and senators in Washington and their hometowns. At every step of the way, congressional offices told us that pro-diplomacy voices had outweighed those opposed by ten-to-one. But then something strange happened. Suddenly, the calls for and against the Iran nuclear deal were coming in at an equal rate.

      It was unlikely that the success of having achieved a historic diplomatic nuclear agreement with Iran, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as its formally known, had suddenly made the U.S. public swing against diplomacy. Yet as paid TV ads attacking the JCPOA started popping up and the anti-diplomacy phone calls came pouring in, a dangerous mindset started to spread throughout the halls of Congress: It was going to be bad politics for Democrats to stand with the president and against a small cohort of powerful, deep pocketed special interests.

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      What Jamaal Bowman's Historic Win Represents for the Palestinian People

      What Jamaal Bowman's Historic Win Represents for the Palestinian People

      For decades, the pro-Israel lobby was able to carry the day in Congress because Members feared the repercussions of criticizing Israel. That tide is turning.

      James Zogby
      Jun 29, 2020

      On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, Jamaal Bowman made history by winning the Democratic Party primary in New York State's 16th Congressional District. Here's why his victory is so significant.

      Bowman beat Eliot Engel, a 16-term incumbent Congressman who served as Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and had the backing of nearly the entire Democratic Party establishment, including former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and ran on an unabashedly progressive platform that included support for Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. He was outspent by a margin of two to one. And because Bowman had taken positions calling for justice for Palestinians, "dark money" pro-Israel super-PAC's spent an additional $2,000,000 in independent expenditures in an effort to tear down his character and defeat him. Despite all of these challenges, Jamaal Bowman won, sending the message that change is on the way.

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