How Khashoggi murder, Yemen war are reawakening activism in Congress
“From the legislative branch side, we’re going to do as much as we can, as hard as we can, to send a signal to the world.”
Those forceful words – concerning the US response to the Saudi government’s murder of Saudi journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi – were spoken Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” by a United States senator.
They may sound like the stuff of any number of congressional Democrats who are promising a reinvigorated role for Congress in the oversight and carrying out of US foreign policy.
But in fact the comment was made by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
And what his words suggest is that Congress’s awakening from what analysts say has been a two-decades-long dormancy when it comes to foreign-policy activism won’t simply be the stuff of the Democrats’ retaking control of the House of Representatives in elections this month.
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