Benjamin Netanyahu Addresses Congress

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in America this week. While here, he met with the President as well as Donald Trump, and he gave an address to the House and Senate. I was honored to attend the address. Israel is one of our most important allies in the world, and they are fighting for their very right to exist. It is as important as ever that we stand by our friend Israel as they fight the Hamas terrorists, as well as with the Jewish community across the world as they combat anti-Semitism the likes of which has not been seen since World War II.

And yet, as we sat there listening to stories of combat and hostages taken by Hamas that still have not come home, anti-Israel protesters hovered around the Capitol. They took down American flags and replaced them with Palestinian flags. They vandalized monuments and graffitied horrible expletives against Israel, and even some directly supporting Hamas.

This is unacceptable, and it is hard to wrap my head around how so many people can be so uninformed and misguided. On the House Ways and Means Committee, we are holding hearings on how our universities have been able to become hotbeds for these radical thinkers and how we can combat this trend.

Harris Border Failures

The Left may not like the term "border czar," but the fact is the President put Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of securing the southern border and under her watch, it has only gotten worse, putting communities across the country at risk. And Democrats in the House and Senate are complicit in this failure by refusing to take the border crisis seriously.

I shared some of my concerns during a Rules Committee hearing this week. You can watch them in full here.

Thanks for visiting!

So many great people come out to D.C. and I always enjoy when I can sit down and hear their perspectives on the issues that matter to them. Here are just a few of the people that have come by recently.

The National Milk Producers Federation works with the many, many milk producers in Minnesota's Seventh District to address their policy concerns, and I was glad to have them in my office to discuss issues like trade market development, product standards, and milk pricing.

Congratulations to Aurora, the Seventh District's Congressional Art Competition winner! I was so glad you could come out to the Capitol to see your work, which will hang for visitors, Members, and staff to admire for the next year.

Thanks to SNAC for meeting with me to talk about everything from the Farm Bill to workforce issues to supply chains.

I hope everyone from the Tracy Area High School had a great time on their trip out to D.C.!

The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies serves regional and local mutual insurance companies across the country, and I was glad to sit down with their group to discuss rising costs, data privacy, and the Federal Insurance Office.

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