Lois Frankel
D · U.S. House, FL-23 · Tier 1
Tier 1, “Firmly pro-Israel”
Pro-Israel. She wrote H.Res.966, a resolution “condemning rape and sexual violence committed by Hamas in its war against Israel,” which passed 418–0 in February 2024. She currently represents FL-22 and is running in the new CD-23 under Florida’s 2026 map. She signed the September 26, 2025 DMFI-backed Auchincloss letter to Secretary Rubio, and cosponsored H.Res.988 — Salazar’s resolution marking the 30th anniversary of the 1992 Hezbollah bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and condemning antisemitism in Latin America. She left the Progressive Caucus in 2023 over the Israel rift. On Oct 1, 2026 Frankel, the ranking member of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees US military aid to Israel, praised DMFI’s plan for the future US–Israel relationship as “a thoughtful and serious vision for strengthening that relationship,” saying “U.S. partnership with Israel is essential to our national security and to advancing peace and stability in the Middle East.” On September 24, 2026 she cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act (H.R.3045), which would sanction perpetrators of settler violence in the West Bank and officials connected to it. In January 2024 she signed the Smith–Manning letter, whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s “charge of genocide” against Israel. Later that year she signed Josh Gottheimer’s letters urging Speaker Johnson to put the Senate’s national-security supplemental, with its aid to Israel, to an immediate vote (April), asking the Treasury and State Departments to designate and sanction UNRWA employees who took part in the October 7 attacks (May), and seeking a classified briefing on Iranian government efforts “to promote and encourage anti-Israel protests” (July).
A Tier 1 for a Democrat, on authored Israel legislation, a pro-Israel brand and proactive conduct. She wrote H.Res.966, a resolution “condemning rape and sexual violence committed by Hamas in its war against Israel,” which passed 418–0 in February 2024. She left the Progressive Caucus in 2023 over the Israel rift — a signature pro-Israel identity that members at 1/2 with firm records but no such brand (Norcross, Vargas) lack — and pairs it with proactive conduct: two ICC-sanctions Yeas, a cosponsored pro-Israel resolution, the September 2025 DMFI-backed Auchincloss letter, 2024 letters seeking sanctions on UNRWA employees and a classified briefing on Iranian influence in anti-Israel protests, and a party-line crossing on H.R.8369 to force arms delivery over Biden’s pause. She is not without concern for Palestinian civilians: she signed a May 28, 2025 statement — spearheaded by DMFI, with Dan Goldman leading on the member side — whose aid language asks that humanitarian aid be "disbursed swiftly and safely to Palestinian civilians and not Hamas", and Frankel’s October 2025 ceasefire statement hoped for “long-awaited relief to all innocent people who have suffered since October 7.” Neither conditions aid nor criticizes Israeli conduct, so they don’t change where she sits. Her September 2026 cosponsorship of the West Bank Violence Prevention Act, which would sanction perpetrators of settler violence, is the one act on her record aimed at Israeli conduct; it is a cosponsorship rather than her own words, and it sits beside a voting record with no daylight. Her vote for the bill forcing delivery of the paused bomb shipment alone wouldn’t make her a clean 1 — Pallone cast the same one — but writing H.Res.966 is the leadership a clean 1 takes. A clean 1.
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