{"id":2250401,"date":"2024-05-22T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-expects-schumer-to-join-invite-for-netanyahu-address-to-congress\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:41:01","slug":"speaker-johnson-expects-schumer-to-join-invite-for-netanyahu-address-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-expects-schumer-to-join-invite-for-netanyahu-address-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson anticipates Schumer&#8217;s participation in the invitation for Netanyahu&#8217;s Congressional address"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fspeaker-johnson-expects-schumer-to-join-invite-for-netanyahu-address-to-congress%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=2250401&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--><p>House Speaker Mike Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warp-speed-advisor-expects-vaccine-to-ship-mid-december-herd-immunity-by-may\/\" title=\"\u2018Warp Speed\u2019 advisor expects vaccine to ship mid-December, \u2018herd immunity\u2019 by May\">expects<\/a> Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to promptly endorse a letter \u200dinviting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress. Negotiations \u2062for an agreement are ongoing, with staff facilitating communication. Schumer&#8217;s involvement is crucial to prevent potential\u200b limitations on participant attendance. Meetings between the two offices indicate Schumer&#8217;s willingness to participate, despite no direct conversation between the Speaker and Schumer.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he expects Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to sign on to a letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3012032\/johnson-gives-schumer-ultimatum-netanyahu-congress-invite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress<\/a> \u201cas quickly as possible,\u201d suggesting an agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2929726\/house-gop-weighs-inviting-israels-benjamin-netanyahu-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>could be reached<\/a> as early as this week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve not spoken to [Schumer] personally, but our staffs are communicating,\u201d Johnson told reporters. \u201cIt seems as though he wants to sign on, so I welcome that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s comments come one day after he gave his Senate counterpart an ultimatum to join the invitation or else risk Republicans closing the event to just House lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer, who called for new elections in Israel over Netanyahu\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-protests-give-mike-johnson-chance-to-turn-page-on-ukraine-divisions\/\" title=\"Columbia Protests Offer Mike Johnson Opportunity for Unity after Ukraine Discord\">casualty-heavy war<\/a> in Gaza, has not indicated when he would sign on to such an invite, telling reporters on Tuesday he supports the prime minister coming to the Capitol and that he is in talks with the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>The invite comes as Netanyahu faces an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-weighs-punishing-icc-for-seeking-arrest-warrants-for-israeli-officials\/\" title=\"House Republicans consider taking action against the ICC for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials\">arrest warrant application<\/a> from the International Criminal Court over allegations of committing war crimes. The Biden administration and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have decried the warrant. <\/p>\n<p>House Republican leaders have even gone so far as to propose a bill that would sanction any foreign person engaged in an effort by the ICC to investigate or arrest a U.S. citizen or an official from an allied U.S. country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica should punish the ICC,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cCongress is reviewing all of our options. Right now, we have some very aggressive legislation that we\u2019re going to push as quickly as possible. It will impose sanctions \u2026 if the ICC moves forward with its absurd warrant request.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said he spoke with Netanyahu about the proposal last week and expects to talk with him again on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re getting down to the fine points of [the bill], and hopefully, it will be a bipartisan bill and that everybody will be able to stand together on that,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI think we need to send a strong message to the world that this is completely and wildly inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear when Netanyahu would be slated to speak to Congress once the invitation is sent, although Johnson said it would be \u201cas soon as we can schedule it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has long been a polarizing figure for Democrats. Last year, he attempted to implement judicial reforms they regarded as democratic backsliding, while the war in Gaza has only deepened that divide.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Netanyahu addressed Congress was in 2015 at the invitation of then-Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, to excoriate the Iran nuclear deal the Obama administration had forged. Boehner kept then-President Barack Obama in the dark about the invite, prompting several Democrats to boycott the address. Schumer, however, wasn\u2019t among the protesters, saying the relationship between the United States and Israel transcends the rift with the speaker.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) anticipates Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) joining the letter inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress promptly. An agreement may be reached this week, with staff communication ongoing between the two offices despite no direct conversation between Speaker Johnson and Senator Schumer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":2250402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24143532210138-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24143532210138-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250401","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\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}