GOP senator urges Biden to confirm US will keep embassy in Jerusalem – By Brett Samuels (The Hill) / Feb 6 2021
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) on Saturday wrote to President Biden urging him to publicly confirm that he will keep the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem after the Senate overwhelmingly signaled support for the location last week.
“This is not a difficult question and should not require any deliberation,” Hagerty wrote in the letter, which was obtained first by The Hill.
The Senate, in an overnight voting session on Friday, passed a non-binding amendment introduced by Hagerty and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) by a vote of 97-3 in support of maintaining the embassy in Jerusalem. The embassy was relocated there during the Trump administration from Tel Aviv after previous presidents had punted on the move.
