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The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a resolution stating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's forthcoming report on Russian election meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election should be made public.
The resolution passed the House 420-0. Four Republican lawmakers voted "present" on the measure — a way to avoid a "yes" or "no" vote. Seven lawmakers didn't cast votes. All 18 members of Pennsylvania's U.S. House delegation voted in favor of the measure, according to the House roll call.
More than 20 members of the US Congress warned that a future free trade deal between the US and UK could be delayed "indefinitely" as they called on Theresa May to ensure there is no return to a hard border in Ireland.
In a letter sent to the British prime minister on the eve of the Taoiseach's visit to Washington to mark St Patrick's Day, the bipartisan group calls on Mrs May's government "to do everything in its power" to prevent the imposition of a hard border between the Republic and North.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) released the following statement condemning recent comments by the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in Parliament that killings by soldiers and the police during the decades-long conflict there "were not crimes":
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, as President Trump's second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un approaches, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) reintroduced his bill prohibiting President Trump from lifting economic sanctions on North Korea absent certification that it is improving its appalling human rights record. The legislation aims to strengthen the diplomatic hand of American negotiators to allow – and require – them to raise these issues during negotiations. Congressman Boyle released the following statement upon the introduction:
WASHINGTON DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (CA-12) released the following statement regarding Congressman Boyle's appointment to the United States Group of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) released the following statement following President Trump declaring a national emergency at the southern border in order to build a border wall without Congressional approval.
"One can criticize the Israeli government without necessarily being anti-Semitic. Just like one can criticize the US government without necessarily being anti-American. However, there is simply no denying the fact that, for some, their anti-Israel views are rooted in anti-Semitism.
Alluding to an old trope about Jews and money is, quite clearly, anti-Semitic. Regardless of political party, anti-Semitism must be loudly rejected, especially now at a time of increased anti-Semitic attacks, both here at home and abroad.
WASHINGTON, DC – In light of this critical time during the Brexit debate, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) introduced a resolution into the House of Representatives expressing the sense of the House that it opposes any re-establishment of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. His statement is as follows:
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-2) and Congressman Richard Neal (MA-1) introduced a resolution honoring the 100th anniversary of the inaugural meeting of the First Dáil Éireann, Ireland's Parliament, which produced a Declaration of Independence for Ireland on January 21, 2019.
WASHINGTON, DC – Early this morning, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13) issued the following statement in response to the federal government shut down after President Trump and congressional Republicans failed to advance a spending bill that included $5 billion for President Trump's expensive, ineffective, and unpopular proposed border wall: