Johnson’s comments come one day after he gave his Senate counterpart an ultimatum to join the invitation to have Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak to lawmakers.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he expects Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to sign on to a letter“I’ve not spoken to personally, but our staffs are communicating,” Johnson told reporters. “It seems as though he wants to sign on, so I welcome that.”
Schumer, who called for new elections in Israel over Netanyahu’s casualty-heavy war in Gaza, has not indicated when he would sign on to such an invite, telling reporters on Tuesday he supports the prime minister coming to the Capitol and that he is in talks with the speaker. House Republican leaders have even gone so far as to propose a bill that would sanction any foreign person engaged in an effort by the ICC to investigate or arrest a U.S. citizen or an official from an allied U.S. country.
Johnson said he spoke with Netanyahu about the proposal last week and expects to talk with him again on Wednesday.
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