A legislator's role varies based on whether their party is in the majority or minority.

“the job of being in Congress again is you get as much of the pie as possible and that changes pretty radically depending on whether you are in the minority or whether they are in the majority whether there's a democrat in the white house or whether there is a republican in the white house”

Tommy Vietor believes that conditioning aid to Israel to ensure it adheres to international human rights laws is a necessary and minimal standard for US policy.

“Murphy basically said we should condition Aid to ensure it's used in accordance with interal human rights laws that does seem like the absolute bare minimum that one should do”