Christopher R. Deluzio

Democrat · U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 17

By March 2026 Deluzio had cosponsored two bills to limit U.S. weapons transfers to the government of Israel. In July he wrote that Americans are “sick and tired of seeing our American dollars sent overseas to arm Israel’s military” and that he had voted to stop that funding.

Deluzio is a Democrat serving his second term in Pennsylvania’s 17th District, which covers Beaver County and part of Allegheny County. He is a Navy veteran of the Iraq war and sits on the House Armed Services Committee. He faces Republican Tony Guy on November 3, 2026.

He explained the 2026 co-sponsorships himself. He is one of 25 original cosponsors of the Ceasefire Compliance Act, and in March 2026 he signed on to the Block the Bombs Act, which would bar the transfer of several categories of bombs, bomb guidance kits and tank and artillery ammunition to the government of Israel unless Congress passes a law approving each specific transfer. He told the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle that he had waited because of the war with Iran, and that the point was who decides: “we should not be funding this war, either directly — if a supplemental request to continue Defense Department funding for the war would come to us — or indirectly, as the State Department did in bypassing Congress with selling new bombs to the Israelis. And the legislation here would stop that, to make clear that Congress has to make those decisions and give our assent or not to those kinds of sales.” He said the Ceasefire Compliance Act is limited to offensive weapons and tied to the phases of the ceasefire deal. On July 15, 2026 he wrote that he had voted yes on the Massie amendment “to stop America’s funding of Israel’s weapons of war”, saying the Netanyahu government “regularly flouts U.S. and International law” and that “we need a very different relationship”.

His earlier record points both ways, and he has explained that too. On February 6, 2024 he said his no vote on a standalone Israel security bill was about the way Republicans had written it, while stating that he remained “steadfast in supporting Israel’s fight against Hamas terrorists and its right to defend itself, pushing for substantial humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza, and advocating for a two-state solution”. On May 3, 2024, days after the spring supplemental passed, he led a letter with Rep. Jason Crow and 86 colleagues telling President Biden there was “sufficient evidence that Israel’s restrictions on the delivery of US-backed humanitarian aid violate Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act”, a statute that bars U.S. security assistance and arms sales to a government that blocks American humanitarian aid. The letter urged the administration to consider tools “from refreshing the assurances to withholding specific arms transfers”, said the Israeli government was “risking its eligibility for further offensive security assistance from the U.S.”, and said the assistance in the package just passed “should not be interpreted as a blank check”. The same letter said missile-defense funding was not affected and that the signers continued to support it.

On Gaza aid and on the shape of a settlement he has been steady. In August 2025 he and five other veteran members of Congress wrote to the Israeli ambassador asking Israel to “flood Gaza with humanitarian aid” so that scarce food could not be used as leverage. In September 2025 he was one of 47 House Democrats who asked the administration to recognise a Palestinian state. In October 2025 he welcomed the ceasefire and hostage agreement and said he hoped it would create “an enduring two-state peace”. He is a member of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism; his record on antisemitism and community safety, and the rest of what was read, are on the research page.

Tracked votes: opposed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 4 of 6 recorded votes.

Research

One search (run 2026-08-21) was read as a lead list for this card, and every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless marked otherwise. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Deluzio has represented PA-17 since January 2023, so his tracked votes are shown as badges on this card and are not re-counted here.

U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

Safety and antisemitism (context, not a position on what America sends)

Earlier record

The race

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Also in this race: Tony Guy (Republican) · All Pennsylvania candidates.

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