Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel s diplomatic reporter
Joe Biden during a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, not seen, at the Prime Minister s Office in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (Debbie Hill, Pool via AP/File)
After 19 days, the unringing phone in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has become impossible to ignore, resonating louder than any actual conversation he could have had with US President Joe Biden by now. After nearly three weeks of silence from the United States to its closest ally in the region, and an indispensable partner in countering Iran’s malign ambitions, some Israelis are starting to worry.
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President Joe Biden puts the cap on a pen after signing an executive order in the State Dinning Room of the White House.
In his first two weeks in office, President Biden has signed nearly as many executive orders as Franklin Roosevelt signed in his entire first month. And President Roosevelt holds the record.
Adding his signature to three executive orders on immigration Tuesday, Biden has now signed 28 executive orders since taking office. FDR signed 30 in his first month. By sheer volume, Biden is going to be the most active president on this front since the 1930s, said Andy Rudalevige, a professor of government at Bowdoin College.
House GOP leader says he made offer to Democrats to move Greene to new committee
From CNN s Manu Raju, Lauren Fox and Ryan Nobles
McCarthy leaves a GOP meeting at the U.S. Capitol on February 03, in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters Wednesday that he made an offer to Democrats to move Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her current committee assignments to the Small Business Committee.
“When the Democrats contacted me, their complaint was that Marjorie’s comments, which I disavow. I think they are wrong, McCarthy said. This was before she was ever elected. They were concerned about her being on Ed, Workforce and Labor. And, Marjorie’s also a small business owner. Move her to small business. I made that offer to Democrats and they chose to do something that Congress has never done, and if they are going to pick people based on what they said before are they going to hold them to the same standard to what peopl