aipac is not actually a foreign institute. this is a domestic organization. it is funded by domestic sources . by our definition, we are looking exclusively at foreign government funding. we could say first sure money that was coming from a foreign government, aipac doesn't meet that threshold. until we hear some sort of smoking gun that aipac is getting funding from the israeli government, i am not aware of that. we will go back and update the database. we will update this database every year. some of these funding dynamics change. if we do learn that aipac is funded by the israeli government we will certainly add that. host: natalie is in texas, independent, thanks for waiting. caller: i have a question, i want to know -- are you on the air now? host: yes, you are. caller: i wanted to ask you all why are they taking money out of social security of old and disabled? they are taking $400 out of my check every month. i could barely make it. i have to ride the bus to get groceries. host: it is certainly an important topic and one we will certainly come back to

aipac is not actually a foreign institute. this is a domestic organization. funded by domestic sources . by our definition, we are looking exclusively at foreign government funding. we could say first sure money that was coming from a foreign government, aipac doesn't meet that threshold. until we hear some sort of smoking gun that aipac is getting funding from the israeli government, i am not aware of that. we will go back and update the database. we will update this database every year. some of these funding dynamics change. if we do learn that aipac is funded by the israeli government we will certainly add that. host: natalie is in texas, independent, thanks for waiting. caller: i have a question, i want to know -- are you on the air now? host: yes, you are. caller: i wanted to ask you all why are they taking money out of social security of old and disabled? they are taking $400 out of my check every month. i could barely make it. i have to ride the bus to get groceries. host: it is certainly an important topic and one we will certainly come back to but i

i got to ask you, i mean, i don't know whether it's aipac or the lobby or what the fear about having an honest civil debate because you can't even household, because it's just that your you'll be accused of being anti-semitic or what so thanks color. well, you're right. one reason i wrote this book is that there is no debate in this country they intense debates about the same issue which is of a global importance inside israel. the hot debates in jerusalem every day of the year hot and discussions in europe and everywhere else in the world not in the united states. it's impossible in this country in the present climate to have any of decent or in-depth discussion about this. i would like to point out, though, that the book is not about israel. there's nothing in the book about what goes on inside israel. the whole book is about palestine, and that is occupied territories where a horrible affliction is being perpetrate it on the palestinian people by the israeli occupiers. and the word that i use the apartheid, which has caused a lot of problems, certainly does not apply to the democr

i'll probably get my aipac handler in trouble. i don't know who the heck he or she is. the truth is this is right. america should be on the side of the right. and for anyone to stand in the way of this important piece of legislation i think owes the american public an explanation and owes especially your jewish constituency. i fully support h.r. 23. and i look forward to passing it here shortly. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee yields. the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, again i want to respond to the chairman of the committee. we do disagree on the impact of this bill. i disagree that this bill will do anything to get the hostages release. every time we have seen hostages released, it's been during a cease-fire. and not in the mid -- middle of intense bombing. as many families of the hostages have expressed to me directly, they worry very much about the prime minister's continued policy is of all in in terms of military attacks in gaza

lisa: we have seen the drip drop of news regarding aipac and a host of different taxpayers in the uniteds from chinese actors and russian actors. my first thought was how does the u.s. government kept the tech expertise and a time where that is at a premium? where all of the companies are paying top dollar for the top tech and cybersecurity analysts? how do you get those people into government to make sure you're staying ahead of all of the potential hackers? this to me is a huge issue. i'm curious what elon musk has to say. jonathan: you think that plays into h-1b argument at the moment? lisa: i think that has to do with the government. we look at the numbers, amazon, microsoft, what percent of their employees come from h-1b visas and people out of the countries. we look at how many openings there are in the country versus people eligible to fill them, that has to come from somewhere else. that is the reason elon musk has to said -- says we have to go with h-1b. that is the reason donald trump seems to be supporting that despite pushback. jonathan: the incoming president has been consis

i am sorry to say, but i think a peck is the push -- i think aipac is the push behind this, to b what's onan because we don't hear it on many media. i think it's a great place to express your believes. they can attack us with credit card, using guess, buying groceries. they know everything about us. i am not worried about taking my personal information. everyone knows our personal information right now and that's what i want to say. you should not been tiktok. -- ban tiktok. maria: one of the main arguments from the government yesterday was that this isn't about speech at all, that this is about national security concerns. and so, if the exact same content that you are seeing on tiktok today could continue to exist, the government does not really care about the content itself. if people posting anti-american pro china content, if they want to continue to do that on any other platform, on youtube, on facebook, on instagram, on x, then they can go ahead and do that. what the government says it is trying to do is really cut off the chinese government's access to americans' sensitive data a

i am sorry to say, but i think a peck is the push -- i think aipac is the push behind this, to b what's onan because we don't hear it on many media. i think it's a great place to express your believes. they can attack us with credit card, using guess, buying groceries. they know everything about us. i am not worried about taking my personal information. everyone knows our personal information right now and that's what i want to say. you should not been tiktok. -- ban tiktok. maria: one of the main arguments from the government yesterday was that this isn't about speech at all, that this is about national security concerns. and so, if the exact same content that you are seeing on tiktok today could continue to exist, the government does not really care about the content itself. if people posting anti-american pro china content, if they want to continue to do that on any other platform, on youtube, on facebook, on instagram, on x, then they can go ahead and do that. what the government says it is trying to do is really cut off the chinese government's access to americans' sensitive data a