Congress is all but certain to respond to the murder of three Israeli teenagers when it returns from its weeklong July 4 recess next week.
Neither the House nor the Senate have yet passed their fiscal year 2015 spending bills for State and Foreign Operations, giving outraged lawmakers an ideal vehicle to place further restrictions on aid to the Palestinians. The chairman and top Democrat on the House panel on the Middle East and North Africa — Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., and Ted Deutch, D-Fla. — have demanded that the Palestinian Authority break up its unity government with Hamas if the group is found responsible.
