{"id":118854,"date":"2021-02-05T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118854"},"modified":"2021-02-05T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:28:14","slug":"senate-votes-to-keep-u-s-embassy-in-jerusalem-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-votes-to-keep-u-s-embassy-in-jerusalem-permanently\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate votes to keep U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem permanently"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-votes-to-keep-u-s-embassy-in-jerusalem-permanently%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118854&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2366796\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2366796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign on a bridge leading to the US Embassy compound ahead the official opening in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 13, 2018. (AP Photo\/Ariel Schalit)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 10:14 AM PT \u2013 Friday, February 5, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Senate overwhelmingly passed an amendment to keep the U.S. Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem permanently. The measure was passed with near unanimous support late Thursday with 97 senators voting in favor.<\/p>\n<p>While President Trump was first to implement the decades old proposition to relocate the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, congressional approval shields the measure from reversal by future administrations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">97-3, Senate agreed to Inhofe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAmdt786?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SAmdt786<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SConRes5?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SConRes5<\/a>; To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to maintaining the United States Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel. Rollcall Vote #30 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SOmYJ3Dv4t\">https:\/\/t.co\/SOmYJ3Dv4t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U.S. Senate Floor (@SenateFloor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenateFloor\/status\/1357569681016651783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) voted against the move, GOP lawmakers argued this law should not be controversial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been our position in the United States for 25 years, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and we should have our embassy in Jerusalem,\u201d stated Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.). \u201cThis is not controversial; in 1995 the same amendment was 93 to 5, in 2017 it was 90 to 0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty added, the measure contributes to the recognition of Jerusalem as the \u201ceternal and indivisible\u201d capital of Israel, which is paving the way for peace across the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Trump Admin. kept its promise to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish State of Israel &amp; it should remain there. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ytVY5manxi\">pic.twitter.com\/ytVY5manxi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Bill Hagerty (@SenatorHagerty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorHagerty\/status\/1357553567909969922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/gateway-pundit-president-trump-spearheaded-greatest-market-increase-in-u-s-history\/\">Gateway Pundit: President Trump spearheaded greatest market increase in U.S. history<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sign on a bridge leading to the US Embassy compound ahead the official opening in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 13, 2018. (AP Photo\/Ariel Schalit) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 10:14 AM &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892721,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5298,5478,4233,5481,3740,4030],"class_list":["post-118854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-embassy","tag-jerusalem","tag-keep","tag-permanently","tag-senate","tag-votes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}