Hal Rogers
R · U.S. House, KY-5 · Tier 1
Tier 1, “Firmly pro-Israel”
Dean of the House and a senior appropriator. As chairman of the State–Foreign Operations appropriations subcommittee he sponsored its FY2018 and FY2019 bills (H.R.3362, H.R.6385), which carried $3.1 billion and $3.3 billion in military financing for Israel. He has voted for every tracked Israel measure: the November 2023 supplemental (H.R.6126, which he cosponsored on introduction), the February and April 2024 aid bills, H.Res.894, the May 2024 bill forcing delivery of the arms Biden paused (as an original cosponsor), both ICC-sanctions bills and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, and No on the 2025 Greene and 2026 Massie cuts. His statements are steady support with no concern for Gaza’s civilians: Israeli forces must have “the resources necessary to defeat this evil enemy” (Nov 2023); “Israel has the right to self-defense … now is not the time to withhold these critical resources from Israel” (May 2024); and, greeting Netanyahu for his July 2024 address to Congress, “America’s support for Israel must remain ironclad.” In a May 2024 update he opposed a proposal to bring Palestinian refugees from Gaza to the United States, which he said “would unequivocally create a national security risk on our own soil.”
A 1 on appropriations he wrote. As chairman of the State–Foreign Operations appropriations subcommittee he sponsored its FY2018 and FY2019 bills (H.R.3362 and H.R.6385), which set aside $3.1 billion and then $3.3 billion in military financing “for grants only for Israel,” and he was the subcommittee’s ranking member from 2019 to 2022; as full committee chairman in August 2014 he moved the House’s final passage of the $225 million emergency appropriation for Israel’s Iron Dome. His record since October 2023 has not wavered: he was an original cosponsor of the November 2023 Israel supplemental and of the May 2024 bill forcing delivery of the arms Biden paused, has voted for every tracked Israel measure, and voted against the 2025 Greene and 2026 Massie cuts. His statements are steady support with no concern for Gaza’s civilians: “now is not the time to withhold these critical resources from Israel” (May 2024), and that month he called a proposal to admit Palestinian refugees from Gaza “a national security risk on our own soil.” Counter-case: a 1/2, since the subcommittee bills predate the genocide and chairing them was an institutional duty.
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