Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” , August 8, 2024,
*While most of the attention to the November 2024 election is centered around the Presidential election, the outcome of the November 2024 Congressional election – 435 House seats and 34 Senate seats – will greatly impact US national security and foreign policy, in general, and US-Israel relations and US policy toward Iran’s Ayatollahs, in particular.
*According to the US Constitution and to a litany of precedents, both Chambers of Congress – which constitute the most authentic representation of the US constituency – are co-equal to the Executive, as derived from a series of Constitutional checks and balances. Thus, the US Congress is the most powerful Legislature in the world, possessing the power of the purse, and the muscle to check, defy, oversee and overrule (the Administration), direct, investigate, suspend, fund and defund the Executive, as well as to formulate domestic, foreign and national security policies.
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