Washington, June 16 -- Congressman Chris Deluzio issued the following press release:
Last week, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) joined 43 lawmakers asking the State Department to comply with United States law and report how much Israel is spending on settlement activity.
For more than twenty years, U.S. law has required conditions on loan guarantees to Israel. These conditions include limiting any U.S. loan assistance to settlements within Israel's pre-1967 borders and lowering the amount of available loan guarantees by the amount of Israel's public expenditures on illegal settlements in the West Bank.
The State Department is required by law to report these amounts to Congress.
"To enforce the prohibition of the use of the loan guara...