The following officials attended the speech on Capitol hill given by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.)
Rep. Brad Ashford (Neb.)
Rep. Joyce Beatty (Ohio)
Rep. Don Beyer (Va.)
Rep. Sanford Bishop (Ga.)
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (Ore.)
Rep. Brendan Boyle (Pa.)
Rep. Michael Capuano (Mass.)
Rep. Matt Cartwright (Pa.)
Rep. Kathy Castor (Fla.)
Rep. David Cicilline (R.I.)
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (Mo.) Almost never attends joint-session speeches, but reverses his plans on Tuesday and says he’ll come to see Netanyahu.
Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.)
Rep. Joseph Crowley (N.Y.) — Crowley is vice chairman of the Democratic Caucus.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas)
Rep. Susan Davis (Calif.)
Rep. John Delaney (Md.)
Rep. Suzan DelBene (Wash.)
Rep. Ted Deutch (Fla.)
Rep. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.)
Rep. Eliot Engel (N.Y.)
Rep. Elizabeth Esty (Conn.)
Rep. Sam Farr (Calif.)
Rep. Bill Foster (Ill.) – “While Rep. Foster believes Speaker Boehner’s breach of protocol was disappointing and ultimately dangerous to the US-Israel relationship, he will be attending the speech out of respect for the office of the Prime Minister of one of our most important allies. It is important that we maintain our strong relationship with Israel and maintain open lines of communication.”
Rep. Lois Frankel (Fla.)
Rep. Ruben Gallego (Ariz.)
Rep. John Garamendi (Calif.)
Rep. Alan Grayson (Fla.)
Rep. Gene Green (Texas)
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (N.M.)
Rep. Janice Hahn (Calif.)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (Fla.)
Rep. Jim Himes (Conn.) — He told a Connecticut newspaper he didn’t want to make the situation worse.
Rep. Mike Honda (Calif.)
Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.)
Rep. Jared Huffman (Calif.)
Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.)
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.)
Rep. Bill Keating (Mass.)
Rep. Joseph Kennedy (Mass.)
Rep. Dan Kildee (Mich.)
Rep. Derek Kilmer (Wash.) — “Derek intends to attend the speech,” a spokesman told a newspaper in Seattle.
Rep. Ron Kind (Wis.)
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.)
Rep. James Langevin (R.I.)
Rep. John Larson (Conn.) — “I plan to attend the upcoming speech as a matter of courtesy and respect for the long commitment of the United States to our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel,” he told a newspaper in Connecticut.
Rep. Sandy Levin (Mich.)
Rep. Ted Lieu (Calif.)
Rep. Dan Lipinski (Ill.)
Rep. Alan Lowenthal (Calif.)
Rep. Nita Lowey (N.Y.)
Rep. Stephen Lynch (Mass.)
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.)
Rep. Grace Meng (N.Y.)
Rep. Seth Moulton (Mass.)
Rep. Patrick Murphy (Fla.)
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.)
Rep. Richard Neal (Mass.)
Rep. Rick Nolan (Minn.)
Rep. Donald Norcross (N.J.)
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) — Says she is going “as of now.”
Rep. Ed Perlmutter (Colo.)
Rep. Scott Peters (Calif.)
Rep. Jared Polis (Colo.)
Rep. Michael Quigley (Ill.)
Rep. Charles Rangel (N.Y.) — Rangel said he wasn’t going to attend, but was in the audience during Netanyahu’s speech.
Rep. Kathleen Rice (N.Y.)
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (Calif.)
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (Md.)
Rep. Raul Ruiz (Calif.)
Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio)
Rep. John Sarbanes (Md.)
Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.)
Rep. David Scott (Ga.)
Rep. Jose Serrano (N.Y.)
Rep. Terri Sewell (Ala.)
Rep. Brad Sherman (Calif.)
Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.) — “I’m not going to be disrespectful toward a head of state from a country that is so important to us, but I think we could have accomplished getting updated by the prime minister in a way that worked with the White House,” Swalwell told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Rep. Mark Takano (Calif.)
Rep. Dina Titus (Nev.)
Rep. Norma Torres (Calif.)
Rep. Niki Tsongas (Mass.)
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.)
Rep. Filemon Vela (Texas)
Rep. Tim Walz (Minn.) — “If the speech occurs, he will attend,” said spokesman Tony Ufkin.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) — Her spokesman told a Florida newspaper she will attend.
Rep. Peter Welch (Vt.)
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.)
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) — “Being absent is not a way to bolster” the relationship with Israel, he said on MSNBC.
Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.)
Sen. Barbara Boxer (Calif.) — “I’m deeply troubled that politics has been injected into this enduring relationship that has always been above politics, but I plan to go.”
Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio)
Sen. Bob Casey (Pa.) — “Israel is a friend and indispensable partner in the Middle East, and the bond between our two countries has been and always will be unbreakable. Israel’s security and that of the United States are inextricably linked. Nothing should divert attention from the foreign policy issues our two countries are facing: the nuclear negotiations with Iran, the ongoing conflict in Syria, recent terrorist attacks in Europe and the threat from Hamas and Hezbollah. I will attend the Prime Minister’s speech.”
Sen. Ben Cardin (Md.) — “Senator Cardin disagrees with how Speaker Boehner handled the invitation. It was inappropriate. However, Senator Cardin respects the Prime Minister of Israel and will attend his speech to Congress,” according to a statement.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) — “Yes, I am going to go attend the speech,” Feinstein said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday. “I’m going to listen respectfully,” she added. “I’m not going to jump up and down, which is likely to be the posture in that room. I am very concerned by that speech.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.)
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.)
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine)
Sen. Ed Markey (Mass.)
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) — Manchin told the Daily Caller that “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.)
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (Md.)
Sen. Bill Nelson (Fla.)
Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.) — “Senator Peters plans to attend the speech but is disappointed that partisanship has been injected into this issue of national security,” a Peters representative confirmed.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) says he plans to attend for now, but it is a “personal decision” for fellow senators.
Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Sen. Tom Udall (N.M) — “Senator Udall plans to attend but he hopes that the speech will be postponed to a less politically charged time,” said communications director Jennifer Talhelm.
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Congressman Gregory Meeks, who represents the large Far Rockaway Orthodox Jewish population in the U.S. House of Representatives, disgraced himself today by boycotting P.M. Netanyahu’s speech. He played the race card in favor of “his” petulant president over and above any sensitivity to the value of 6 million Jewish lives in Eretz Yisrael.
It is my fervent hope that the Far Rockaway Jewish community never forgets Mr. Meeks’ turning his back on his Jewish constituency. Mr. Meeks demonstrated shameful “meekness” in the face of the threat of genocide from Iran. We MUST help to insure that the “gentleman from New York” is shown the Congressional exit door in the 2016 election.
Is this really the full list?
I believe this is a list of DEMOCRATIC attendees. This list does not include Republicans.
So according to this comment:Sen. Tom Udall (N.M) — “Senator Udall plans to attend but he hopes that the speech will be postponed to a less politically charged time,” said communications director Jennifer Talhelm.—He wants to wait until AFTER Iran makes the world into its beloved Caliphate??? Or until Santa Claus is elected Israel’s Prime Minister? Uggg.
Interesting surprise on Charlie Rangel. I know he has no horse in this race, as he is done running for office and anyway has a low Jewish constituency, but I sure thought he would attend based on his military image, his loyalty to the Allied relationship stance of the USA.
Ok, he came, big-mouth Pelosi came, I guess to represent the mishpacha, and then Netenyahu began his speech with a cute little dig: public recognition of the attendance of Harry Reid!!!! His dear choke-choke) friend. good to see you on your feet, he chuckles. there went Harry’s cover, LOL.
# 4 Rangel did attended the speech after all.
So the “undecided” Yvette Clarke, who represents Crown Heights, decided. She did not attend. Remember that, CH voters!
Yes, I know, alexfromny; if you notice, i mentioned that his attendance was a surprise as he had said he would not come, though I would have expected he would come. I said, “Ok, he came…”