Due to political and civil unrest in Haiti, as gangs undermine democratic order in the county, Haitians are facing unimaginable hardships. Given Florida’s close proximity to the island, it’s anticipated that our state will see a drastic influx of Haitians who are...
News
Latest News
Por Si Se Lo Perdió: Rubio: TikTok es una Amenaza para la Soberanía de EE.UU.
El propietario chino de TikTok es peligroso 15 de marzo del 2024 Informe Orwell La mayoría de los norteamericanos nunca han oído hablar de ByteDance, pero esta empresa de tecnología es la propietaria de TikTok y selecciona los videos de la aplicación para 170 millones...
Next Week: Rubio Staff Hosts Mobile Office Hours
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) office will host in-person and virtual Mobile Office Hours next week to assist constituents with federal casework issues in their respective local communities. These office hours offer constituents who do not live close to one of...
Por Si Se Lo Perdió: Rubio: Usemos Recursos Federales para Contrarrestar la Amenaza del Tren de Aragua
Designen al Tren de Aragua como una Organización Criminal Transnacional 15 de marzo del 2024 Diario las Américas El estrangulamiento de un policía retirado del condado de Miami-Dade, la paliza pública a policías en Times Square, Nueva York, el tráfico humano de cinco...
ICYMI: Rubio: Use Federal Resources against Tren de Aragua
Venezuelan gangs are importing next-level brutality, fear to our streets. We must stop them now U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) March 15, 2024 Fox News …[Tren de Aragua] originated in Venezuela, but [its members] left their homeland and spent the last few years sowing...
Rubio, Salazar y Colegas a POTUS: Designe al Tren de Aragua como una Organización Criminal Transnacional
El Tren de Aragua es una conocida organización criminal que se originó en las cárceles de Venezuela y se ha extendido en todo nuestro hemisferio. Esta estructura criminal transnacional ha liderado macabros asesinatos, ha sido parte de esquemas de soborno, está...
Rubio, Manchin Introduce Bill to Counter BDS Movement Targeting Israel
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) are leading a bipartisan group of 19 senators in introducing the Combating BDS Act (S. 170), a bill to fight back against the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement’s economic warfare against the Jewish state of Israel. The bill, which updates last year’s legislation proposed by Manchin and former Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), increases protections for state and local governments in the United States that decide to divest from, prohibit investment in, and restrict contracting with companies knowingly engaged in commerce-related or investment-related BDS activity targeting Israel.
“This legislation supports efforts by state governments and local communities to use the power of the purse to counter the BDS movement’s economic warfare targeting Israel,” said Rubio. “This bipartisan bill is all the more timely after the United Nations Security Council’s passage of Resolution 2334, a deplorable one-sided measure that harms Israel and effectively encourages the BDS movement’s campaigns to commercially and financially target and discriminate against the Jewish state.”
“This legislation is an important step forward in reassuring Israel that we are protecting our shared national security interests, while also protecting our joint economic interests,” said Manchin. “This bipartisan legislation gives state and local governments a legal way to combat the shameful boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. Israel has been our strongest ally in the Middle East and we need to send them a strong signal that we will do everything in our power to fight the BDS movement.”
Original cosponsors of the Combating BDS Act include Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Bill Nelson (D-FL), John Cornyn (R-TX), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Rob Portman (R-OH), Gary Peters (D-MI), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Roy Blunt (R-MO).
Israel’s opponents are using boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) as a hateful weapon to delegitimize the Jewish State and its allies. At a time when anti-Israel boycotts are popping up around the country and the globe, the United States, Israel and our allies need new ways to defend against the evolving threat of economic warfare. Similar to earlier state-based efforts to divest from companies doing business with Iran and Sudan, a new movement among state and local governments is growing to enact measures to divest from, prohibit investment in, and restrict contracting with entities engaged in discriminatory BDS conduct targeting Israel.
The Combating BDS Act strengthens these efforts by affirming the legal authority of state and local governments to take tangible actions to counter economic warfare against Israel. Recognizing non-preemption, the bill clarifies that state and local governments have the legal authority to identify and divest public funds from, prohibit investment in, and restrict contracting with entities engaged in BDS conduct when the designations are based on “credible information available to the public.” The bill’s non-preemption safe harbor for asset managers will also give them an offensive capability against entities seeking to economically harm Israel.