{"id":569885,"date":"2010-05-18T20:25:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.35008"},"modified":"2010-05-18T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:27:41","slug":"obama-meets-with-almost-all-jewish-members-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569885","title":{"rendered":"Obama meets with almost all Jewish members of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Below, from the White House&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Readout of the President&#8217;s meeting with Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President met with Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses for approximately an hour and a half this afternoon to discuss a range of issues important to U.S. foreign policy. The conversation included an update on proximity talks and administration efforts to strengthen Israel&#8217;s security, including the Administration&#8217;s recent decision to provide Israel with an additional $205 million in funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system. They also discussed today&#8217;s announcement of a consensus P5+1 draft of an Iran sanctions resolution. The President and the Members had a wide ranging and productive exchange about their shared commitment to peace and security in Israel and the Middle East.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of members attending today&#8217;s meeting<\/p>\n<p>1.         Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)<br \/>\n2.         Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)<br \/>\n3.         Al Franken (D-Minn.)<br \/>\n4.         Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.)<br \/>\n5.         Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)<br \/>\n6.         Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.)<br \/>\n7.         Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)<br \/>\n8.         Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)<br \/>\n9.         Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)<br \/>\n10.        Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)<br \/>\n11.        Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)<br \/>\n12.        John Adler (D-N.J.)<br \/>\n13.        Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)<br \/>\n14.        Howard Berman (D-Calif.)<br \/>\n15.        Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.)<br \/>\n16.        Ted Deutch (D-FL)<br \/>\n17.        Susan Davis (D-Calif.)<br \/>\n18.        Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)<br \/>\n19.        Barney Frank (D-Mass.)<br \/>\n20.        Jane Harman (D-Calif.)<br \/>\n21.        Paul Hodes (D-N.H.)<br \/>\n22.        Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)<br \/>\n23.        Steve Kagen (D-Wisc.)<br \/>\n24.        Ron Klein (D-Fla.)<br \/>\n25.        Sander Levin (D-Mich.)<br \/>\n26.        Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)<br \/>\n27.        Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)<br \/>\n28.        Jared Polis (D-Colo.)<br \/>\n29.        Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)<br \/>\n30.        Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)<br \/>\n31.        Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)<br \/>\n32.        Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)<br \/>\n33.        Brad Sherman (D-Calif)<br \/>\n34.        Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)<br \/>\n35.        Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)<br \/>\n36.        Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)<br \/>\n37.        John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below, from the White House&#8230; Readout of the President&#8217;s meeting with Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses &#8220;The President met with Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses for approximately an hour and a half this afternoon to discuss a range of issues important to U.S. foreign policy. The conversation included an update on proximity talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}