Ryan Mackenzie
R · U.S. House, PA-7 · Tier 1/2
Tier 1/2, between “Firmly pro-Israel” and “Mainstream pro-Israel”
First-term Lehigh Valley Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Welcoming the October 2025 ceasefire, he said “We join the peoples of Israel, Gaza, and the entire world in praying for peace to finally touch this region” and “The conflict in Gaza has been devastating for civilians, and countless families now bear the scars of the last two years,” without invoking Israel’s self-defense. His votes are pro-Israel: Yea on the January 2025 ICC-sanctions bill and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, No on the 2025 Greene amendment, and Nay on every 2026 Iran and Lebanon war-powers resolution; he did not vote on the July 2026 Massie amendment or the bill it amended. His first bill to pass the House removed the sunset from the Iran Sanctions Act (May 2025).
A 1/2, narrowly, on a thin record: one sentence of concern. His votes are reliably pro-Israel: Yea on the January 2025 ICC-sanctions bill and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill and No on the 2025 Greene amendment, and he did not vote on the July 2026 Massie amendment. There is no leadership on the issue; his sanctions bill targets Iran, not Israel policy. AIPAC’s PAC and its earmarks gave him $98,315 this cycle, and the RJC’s PAC $27,336 since 2024. His one line of concern, welcoming the October 2025 ceasefire, was that the war “has been devastating for civilians” in Gaza; it invokes no self-defense, but names no Palestinian victims and assigns no responsibility. As a 2024 candidate he attacked Rep. Susan Wild for constituent letters that were “pro-Israel and both pro-Gaza at the same time,” calling them “embarrassing and deceitful.” Counter-case: 2, since the 2025 words are his own, came later and as a member, and voice concern for civilians with no self-defense frame, while the 2024 jab went more at Wild’s supposed two-facedness than at concern for Gaza.
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