Pro-Israel groups are stepping up their congressional lobbying efforts, as senators prepare bipartisan legislation to provide funding to help the country in its war sparked by a Hamas attack.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and J Street are among groups reaching out to members of Congress, even as the House has remained mostly at a standstill without an elected Speaker. The push comes as about a dozen House Democrats introduced a resolution calling for a “ceasefire” backed by such outside organizations as the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Marshall Wittmann, a spokesperson for AIPAC, said in an email that the ...