Carlos Gimenez
R · U.S. House, FL-28 · Tier 1
Tier 1, “Firmly pro-Israel”
Miami-Dade Republican on the Armed Services Committee who has written a run of Israel measures: H.Res.394 condemning Hamas (May 2021, with 63 original cosponsors — “Either you stand with Israel and the Jewish people or you stand with the Hamas terrorists”), the U.S.-Israel Cooperation Expansion Act (H.R.3393), which would make support for bilateral police training official U.S. policy, and H.Res.409 condemning attacks on Israel by Iranian-backed groups (May 2023), and the Prohibiting Student Loan Forgiveness for Antisemites Act (H.R.9102), announced on the day of Netanyahu's July 2024 address. He joined Joe Wilson's February 2024 letter urging the Pentagon to assess “including Israel as part of the National Technology and Industrial Base” and marched in the November 2023 March for Israel (“Am Yisrael Chai!”). He has voted the pro-Israel side of every tracked measure he cast — the 2023–24 Israel supplementals, H.Res.894, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, both ICC-sanctions bills, the Gaza casualty-figures amendment and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, and No on the 2025 Greene and July 2026 Massie cuts — and did not vote on H.R.8369 (May 2024), the bill forcing delivery of the paused bomb shipment, though he was one of its original cosponsors. In January 2024 he signed the Smith–Manning letter, whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s “charge of genocide” against Israel. In July 2026 he withdrew as co-chair of the Congressional Friends of Spain Caucus, telling Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez that Spain’s policies against Israel and the Israel Defense Forces were incompatible with the caucus’s democratic values, and saying, “I stand firmly with Israel and with every democracy fighting terrorism.”
A clean 1. He is a repeat author of Israel legislation — two resolutions condemning Hamas and Iran's proxies, a bill to expand U.S.–Israel police cooperation and a campus-antisemitism loan bill timed to Netanyahu's address — which is the leadership that separates a champion from a reliable vote. His votes are zero-daylight (he missed only H.R.8369) and his statements never express concern for Palestinian civilians. Counter-case: none of his bills advanced past referral, but authorship on this scale still places him at the pro-Israel pole.
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