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Topic: Senate

April 14, 2013
3:11 pm

A Customs officer checks a passenger's passport after arriving at Washington-Dulles International Airport (illustrative photo: James Tourtellotte/ Department of Homeland Security)

Israeli policy complicates push for visa-free entry to US

Security concerns lead Jerusalem to refrain from fully reciprocating on travel waiver

By Ron Kampeas

March 20, 2013
12:28 am

Iranian Jews eligible to immigrate to the US because of the Lautenberg Amendment arrive at Los Angeles International Airport in 2009. (Courtesy of HIAS via JTA)

Lifeline for US law that aided Soviet, now Iranian Jews

Jewish groups are among those advocating a stronger status for effort to shelter persecuted religious minorities

By Ron Kampeas

March 10, 2013
4:18 pm

Illustrative photo of the departure terminal at Ben-Gurion airport. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Senate bill would waive visa requirement for Israelis

Lawmakers seek to exempt Israel from rule on non-immigrant refusal rate, paving way for easier entry into US

March 7, 2013
11:42 pm

CIA Director John Brennan. (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Brennan gets Senate nod for spy chief post

Filibuster gets attention, but vote passes after White House agrees to specify limits on authority to order drone strikes

February 27, 2013
8:11 pm

Senators urge EU to end Iran bank transactions

Signed by 36 legislators, letter seeks to close off possible money laundering mechanism

February 11, 2013
3:21 am

Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan (photo credit: courtesy of US Congress)

Lawmaker: 95% of US companies vulnerable to cyberattacks

Republican Congressman points to Iran and China as the source of an increase in hacking attempts since the fall

February 7, 2013
4:08 am

In this June 26, 2008 file photo, then-senator Chuck Hagel speaks on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC (photo credit: AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Hagel vote delayed while senators await more info

GOP members of Armed Services committee say they want more speech transcripts before deciding on defense secretary nominee

February 2, 2013
2:04 am

Republican Chuck Hagel, US President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

How Hagel won the Armed Services Committee hearing

He stuttered through eight hours of grilling, but senators were grandstanding rather than raising issues of substance

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 31, 2013
12:40 am

Texas Sen. John Cornyn coordinated his opposition to Sen. Chuck Hagel's nomination with Pastor John Hagee, the founder of Christians United For Israel. (Gage Skidmore/CreativeCommons via JTA)

Christian Zionists spearhead fight against Hagel

Pro-Israel evangelicals mobilize to sink GOP senator’s bid to become US defense secretary

By Ron Kampeas

January 22, 2013
11:36 pm

Flemish Minister-President Kris Peeters, second from left, visits Belgium's new Holocaust Museum in Mechelen in November. (Courtesy of Kris Peeters Vlaams via JTA)

Divided Belgium finally admits Holocaust complicity

Long after most of Western Europe, country acknowledges its widespread involvement in the deportation of Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

January 11, 2013
8:20 pm

Belgian Senate recognizes authorities’ role during Holocaust

Body adopts resolution acknowledging ‘collaboration unfitting of a democracy’

January 3, 2013
8:00 am

US President Barack Obama salutes as he gets off Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Gerald Herbert)

Obama signs massive defense bill upping Iran sanctions

White House had originally opposed $633 billion spending bill, which also provides money for Afghanistan War, security at embassies

By AP and Times of Israel staff

January 1, 2013
6:09 am

US President Barack Obama speaking on Monday. (photo credit:AP/Carolyn Kaster)

US lawmakers reach 11th-hour deal to stave off ‘fiscal cliff’ tax raise

Plan will put tax hike on rich, leave levels for lower and middle incomes untouched

By David Espo

December 21, 2012
6:20 pm

73 senators sign AIPAC-backed letter urging continued Iran restrictions

A significant number of pro-Israel senators choose not to add their names to document

December 18, 2012
2:26 am

Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt Gen Benny Gantz meet with US Sen. Daniel K. Inouye in Jerusalem on January 8, 2012. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

US Sen. Daniel Inouye, supporter of Israel, dead at 88

Widely respected Hawaii Democrat visited Israel in January

By Times of Israel staff and AP

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