At a House Democratic leadership press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) was asked about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking before Congress.
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00:00 We're seeing a growing number of Democrats, both House and Senate, be critical of Prime
00:07 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's expected visit to Congress.
00:11 Do you support him coming to speak before Congress?
00:14 And also, how do you make of some members of your conference potentially boycotting?
00:20 I can both hold the position that I respect any world leader who's invited by the Speaker
00:26 of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate to come and address Congress.
00:31 I can hold the position that I respect any leader who gets that invitation, while also
00:36 respecting members' positions that they may choose not to attend that.
00:43 I don't think that those are mutually exclusive, and if members don't want to attend, that
00:49 is their right and ability.
00:51 I just remind people that the President of Kenya was here a couple weeks ago, and Speaker
00:57 Johnson said we didn't have the floor time to invite the African leader to address the
01:03 Congress.
01:04 But now we have time to throw around a bunch of different dates, some that apparently aren't
01:08 going to happen, and we're told it will happen in the near future.
01:14 But I think that that was just an unforced error by the Speaker.