Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital
Congress. The House and Senate are both in session this week. The House plans to take up the For the People Act (H.R. 1) this week, which the House passed in 2019 as well. The legislation is centered around government transparency and accountability. The House will also consider the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (H.R. 1280) this week, which the House passed last Congress in June 2020. There will also be numerous Committee hearings throughout the week, including a House Transportation and Infrastructure hearing tomorrow on COVID-19’s effects on U.S. aviation and a House Energy and Commerce hearing tomorrow on the future of telehealth. The Senate Banking, House and Urban Affairs Committee will also hold a hearing tomorrow on the nominations of Gary Gensler to be a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Rohit Chopra to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
One militant was killed and two were injured in last week’s U.S. airstrike on facilities used by Iranian-backed militias in Syria, the Pentagon said Monday.
The progressive wing of the Democratic party is not happy with the air strikes.
Is President Joe Biden about to become a war president? He conducted an airstrike on Thursday against Iran-backed militias in Syria. Iraqi officials previously said that the strike, which targeted an eastern Syrian border-crossing station occupied by militant groups including Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, left one fighter dead and wounded several others. According to a later estimate given by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strike killed twenty-two militiamen and destroyed three trucks transporting munitions between Iraq and Syria.
The strike was “authorized in response to recent attacks against American and coalition personnel in Iraq, and to ongoing threats,” said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. Earlier this month, a rocket attack linked to Iranian proxy groups killed a contractor and wounded a U.S. service member. “The operation sends an unambiguous me
Israeli strike near Syrian capital Damascus kills six fighters: Reports
A media report claimed that Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles, which it said were fired from Syria s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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BEIRUT: Israel fired several missiles early on Monday targeting areas near the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria s state news agency reported. An opposition war-monitoring group said the strikes killed six Iran-backed fighters.
The SANA news agency claimed that Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles, which it said were fired from Syria s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor with a network of activists on the ground, said the strikes hit positions of the Syrian army s Fourth Division in the mountains near the highway that links Damascus with the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
To adapt to the enemy reality on the ground. what we want to do now is finish with our troops and we want to fix on the long run, the situation. bret: tom, thoughts on that. obviously differences. seems like they ve come together on that too. correct. trump was talking about how well they worked together, what a success it was, the syria strike. clearly he wants to be out of syria. he didn t want to go back there in the slightest. trump will be putting pressure, as mollie said come on france and other allies to step up and make sure there s a solution in syria that will allow us to withdraw because he has wanted that for a long, long time. one of his original campaign promises. bret: big focus today ended up being the veterans affairs secretary nomination of ronny jackson. take a listen. i am looking forward to the hearing and answering everyone s questions. i haven t heard of the