Rick Crawford
Crawford chairs the House Intelligence Committee and led a 2025 delegation to Israel reiterating, in his committee’s words, continued U.S. support of its ally; he visited an aid crossing to understand "efforts to surge aid" into Gaza. With Representative Gottheimer he moved to condemn Hamas’s "campaign of executions" against Palestinians.
Crawford represents Arkansas’s 1st District, is the sitting member, and chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
His recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card, all on the support side, including votes against both amendments to cut aid to Israel. In August 2025 he led the committee’s first bipartisan delegation to Israel, meeting Prime Minister Netanyahu and Ambassador Huckabee "to reiterate the United States’ continued support of its ally, Israel, and its right to defend itself"; his own release also describes visiting the Kerem Shalom border crossing, which he said "gave me a better understanding of efforts to surge aid" into Gaza.
In October 2025, Jewish Insider reported that he and Democratic Representative Gottheimer would introduce a resolution condemning Hamas for its "campaign of executions and intimidation against innocent Palestinians in Gaza" after the ceasefire. Welcoming the new ambassador that April, he called Israel one of America’s greatest allies needing support "more than ever".
His statements from the weeks after the October 2023 attack are on the research page, as is a 2026 television interview this project could not watch. Nothing located has him addressing U.S. humanitarian aid funding as a question of its own.
Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 6 of 6 recorded votes.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- His recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card, all support-side; the grounding for each sits in the record section.
- [Position, 2025-08-06] His committee’s release on the delegation, quoted on the card; also carried by Representative Gottheimer’s release. Both open; the reiterated-support line and the Kerem Shalom aid-crossing passage are the release’s own text.
- [Position, 2025-04-09] His release welcoming Ambassador Huckabee’s confirmation: "At a time when one of our greatest allies needs our support more than ever...". Verified.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located as a position on U.S. aid funding. His own delegation release describes the Kerem Shalom aid staging visit as improving his understanding of "efforts to surge aid" into Gaza; quoted on the card as what it is.
- [Position, 2025-10-28] The resolution with Representative Gottheimer condemning Hamas’s "campaign of executions and intimidation against innocent Palestinians in Gaza", per Jewish Insider. Verified; a protecting-Palestinians-from-Hamas position, stated as such.
- [Reported, uncorroborated] A post-trip characterization that Hamas perpetuates the crisis by diverting and stealing aid is attributed to him by the research, whose only additional source is a television station’s Facebook post that does not open. Not adopted; his release’s own words are used instead.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-11] Co-sponsorship of H.Res. 771 ("barbaric war launched by Hamas and other terrorists"). Off the card.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-25] Floor remarks in the Congressional Record. Off the card.
- [Excluded, misattributed sources] November 29, 2023 statements attributed to him are cited by the research to **another member’s Facebook account** (a Texas representative’s page). A different politician’s account cannot carry his words; excluded entirely, and they would be in-window besides.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.
- An adversary tracker (Reverse Canary Mission) keeps a page on him; a tracker’s compilation, nothing adopted.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2026-03-15, unwatchable video source] A NewsNation interview is reported by the research; the only sources are YouTube pages that were not watched. Nothing claimed. It is not yet confirmed.
Race and status context
- Sitting member and committee chairman, nominated. His Democratic challenger’s card carries its own record.
Also in this race: Terri Yarbrough Green (Democrat) · All Arkansas candidates.
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