Washington, D.C. —Today, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, introduced the United States-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act of 2024 to advance and deepen our strategic defense partnership.
Jordan has long been a reliable partner and has worked alongside the U.S. in… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Dean Phillips voted against H.Res.1371, “Strongly condemning the Biden Administration and its Border Czar Kamala Harris’s failure to secure the United States border,” and called on Congress to get serious about solving our nation’s border security and immigration problem.
“If there is someone to blame for the human and security failures at our… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Dean Phillips, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, issued the following statement in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a Joint Session of Congress:
"In his address to Congress, Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke about the threat that Iran and its terror… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representatives Costa, Cohen, Goldman, Manning, Norcross, Phillips, Schrier, Stevens, Stanton, Sherman, Wasserman-Schultz, and Wild voted against H.R. 8369, the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, and issued the following joint statement in response to repeated attempts by House Republicans to use Israel and the American Jewish community as… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Dean Phillips (D, MN) released the following statement today after H.R. 6090, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, passed the House on a 320-91 vote:
"For years, antisemitism has been steadily rising across the United States and around the world. Following the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel in which 1,200 people were brutally murdered and over 200… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Rep. Dean Phillips (D, MN) will vote against Republicans’ long-shot bid to remove Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The quixotic campaign has baffled many, since it is Congress - not Cabinet secretaries – that is at fault for the shameful state of our immigration system.
“This Republican Majority will go down in history as a… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today Rep. Dean Phillips (MN-03) released the following statement on Speaker Johnson’s Israel funding bill:
“With a bipartisan deal in hand that would strengthen U.S. national security and support our Ukrainian, Israeli, and Taiwanese allies in their defense against dictators and terrorists, I’m appalled that Speaker Johnson has chosen –for the second… Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Dean Phillips (MN-03), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, released the following statement on the despicable Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on October 7, the resulting human tragedy in Gaza, and the never ending, seventy-five year cycle of bloodshed that must come to an end and be… Read more »