Michael Baumgartner

Debating American involvement in Israel in September 2026, Baumgartner said: “I would say it’s the U.S.’ interest to do so.” Back from Israel in 2025 he said the people of Gaza need to be fed, and that the United Nations food program there is not “an honest broker”.

Michael Baumgartner has represented Washington's 5th District, which covers Eastern Washington from Spokane out to Pullman, Walla Walla and the northeastern counties, since January 2025. He sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Middle East Subcommittee, and the region is where his working life began: he studied in the Middle East three decades ago, was a State Department officer in Baghdad during the Iraq war, and advised a counter-narcotics program in Afghanistan. He is running for a second term on November 3, 2026 against Carmela Conroy, the Democrat he defeated in 2024.

Foreign policy opened the first debate of the rematch, in Spokane on September 9, 2026. He said that people who are against American involvement in Israel have every right to argue for that, and then said he would say it is in the United States' interest to be involved. Nothing located here has him setting out what he would do about the annual American military aid to the government of Israel, either the amount or the conditions on it, and he has published no statement about the two amendments to cut that aid on which his votes are recorded.

His own legislation about what America sends is written for arms exports in general rather than for one country. In September 2025 the House passed his bill setting deadlines for arms export licences to priority allies, which his office says would get allied defense equipment to the front lines faster; the release names Iran, Russia, China and North Korea as the adversaries in question and does not name Israel as a recipient. Writing in the National Review in May 2025, in a passage his office republished, he said that modernising the Foreign Military Sales system is about restoring American credibility as the security partner of choice.

On aid reaching Gaza he has said a good deal more, and said it after going to see. In August 2025 he spent a week in Israel with about thirty other first-term members and the Speaker of the House, on a trip he told The Spokesman-Review was organized by the American Israel Educational Foundation, the charitable arm of the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC. The delegation met the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an American organization that has distributed food in Gaza since the government of Israel refused to work with the United Nations World Food Program. Asked why more food was not being let into Gaza, he said the people there need to be fed and then returned to what he sees as unfair coverage of the war. Of the United Nations program he said: “The United Nations food program I don’t think is an honest broker or an honest communicator about what’s actually gone on there.” He also said he believed that program was “just totally dominated by Hamas right now”, on the strength of what Americans working for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had told him. Two months later, marking the second anniversary of the October 7 attack, he said any outcome of the talks in Cairo must ensure Israel’s security, bring hostages home, uphold human dignity, and open space for relief and reconstruction in Gaza.

He describes a war that ends by defeating Hamas. “You have to root out Hamas to give the Palestinian people a chance to have something other than a death cult leading them,” he said on his return. He said he wants to create a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians, that the land-for-peace approach has failed, and that it should be replaced by peace first and land for the Palestinians afterwards. The delegation visited Ariel, a settlement in the West Bank; asked about the settlements, he said the concerns about them are not illegitimate but that the focus of American diplomacy should not be on which settlement is where. He said the government of Israel is taking great care to safeguard the population of Gaza in the middle of a counterinsurgency, and that it is held to a higher standard than any force in western history.

The resolution he introduced in June 2025 with two colleagues, which is mostly about Iran's nuclear program but also reaffirms support for the right of the government of Israel to defend itself and calls for continued American support for its missile defenses, his bill on foreign gifts to universities, and his questioning of university presidents about antisemitism on campus, are all on his research page.

Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 2 of 2 recorded votes.

Research

Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-09-18 unless the entry says otherwise. His congressional newsroom was read in full, all 91 press releases and all 8 In The News items published between January 2025 and September 2026, each searched for this subject; 20 of them touch it and every one of those is on this page. His campaign site was read in full, including its issues page and its news archive. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. His recorded House votes, his tracked bill sponsorship and the tracked funding total are shown in this card's record section and are not restated here.

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

• [Position, 2026-09-09] The Spokesman-Review's report of the first Baumgartner-Conroy debate, at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane, by Amanda Sullender, published September 9, 2026 and updated September 11. The report states, in the reporter's words, that “Baumgartner is a strong supporter of the Israeli state and the American aid supporting it because both are in ‘American interest’ in the region.” That sentence is the reporter's characterization and only the two words inside the quotation marks are his, so the card rests on his own quoted sentence instead: “If you’re against U.S. involvement in Israel, advocate for that. You know, that’s your right to do that. I would say it’s the U.S.’ interest to do so.” The rest of that answer, about Tucker Carlson, Hasan Piker and antisemitism on both sides of the aisle, is under safety and antisemitism below. Carmela Conroy's answers in the same report are hers and are not used here.
• [Position, 2025-09-02] The House passed his International Traffic in Arms Regulations Licensing Reform Act under suspension of the rules. The release says the bill requires the Secretary of State to keep a list of priority countries eligible for expedited licence processing and sets deadlines of 45 days for priority partners and 60 days for all applications. He is quoted: “America must remain the defense partner of choice. That requires time-certain decisions for our trusted allies, not years of red tape”, and the release says the bill codifies an executive order on foreign defense sales. Israel is not named in the release; the adversaries it names are Iran, Russia, China and North Korea, and it records that he serves on the Foreign Arms Sales Task Force. Nothing on this card claims the bill is about Israel.
• [Position, 2025-05-05] His National Review piece, republished in part by his office. On the Foreign Military Sales system he wrote: “As a member of the bipartisan FMS Task Force, I’ve seen partners like the UAE who pay up front wait years for critical equipment. It’s unacceptable. Modernizing FMS isn’t charity for allies — it’s about restoring American credibility as the security partner of choice.” The excerpt on his own site ends there and the full article at nationalreview.com would not render for us, so only the republished excerpt is used. Israel is not named in it.
• [Position, 2025-06-27] The resolution he introduced with Reps. August Pfluger and Zach Nunn. His office says it affirms support for the President's policy of dismantling Iran's nuclear weapons program and “also reaffirms unwavering support for the State of Israel’s right to defend itself amid escalating threats from the Iranian regime”, and that it “calls for continued support of Israel’s missile defense systems—including Iron Dome and David’s Sling—and urges renewed diplomatic efforts backed by firm pressure to bring Iran to the negotiating table”. His own quoted words in the release are about Iran and name Israel nowhere. The words printed there from Rep. Pfluger and Rep. Nunn are theirs. Missile defense is kept off the fifty-word front by standing rule and is set out here and in the deep dive with no prejudice.
• [Position, 2025-12-10] His statement on final passage of the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. His own quoted words are about pay, barracks, housing, hospitals and drug trafficking, and say only that the bill “stands shoulder to shoulder with our allies around the globe”. The bill summary his office prints beneath the quotation says the Act advances the President's Peace Through Strength initiative “by authorizing $400 million for Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and by fully funding the U.S. commitment to defend Israel through joint U.S.-Israel cooperative missile defense programs”. That is his office's summary of the bill rather than a sentence he is quoted saying, and it is recorded here as such. His statement on the fiscal 2027 Act, July 22, 2026, names Israel nowhere; it is about pay, barracks, childcare, munitions and an amendment of his own on a munitions technology made in Spokane.
• [Position, 2025-05-15] The cosponsor list for H.R. 1229, the United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025 records him joining the bill on May 15, 2025, one of 178 cosponsors. The bill text as introduced, by Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina on February 12, 2025, would authorize $150 million a year for five years for a joint counter-drone program, $50 million a year for joint work on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics and quantum computing, raise the authorization for joint anti-tunnel work from $50 million to $80 million, extend the War Reserves Stockpile authority to 2029, open a Defense Innovation Unit office in Israel and order an assessment of integrated air and missile defense in the region. The sponsorship is shown in this card's record section. He has published nothing about the bill, so nothing on the card characterizes it.
• [Position, 2026-07-16] The Spokesman-Review's report of the House vote on the amendment to cut $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing records that every Republican except its author voted against it, and names Baumgartner among them. It quotes no words of his. The vote is shown in this card's record section, and no words of his about it were located anywhere.
• Nothing located, at any date, in which he states a figure, a condition or a limit for American military aid to the government of Israel, or discusses the memorandum of understanding that sets it.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

• [Position, 2025-08-12] The Spokesman-Review's interview with him on his return from Israel, by Orion Donovan Smith, published August 12, 2025. The delegation met the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which the report describes as “a U.S.-based organization that has distributed limited amounts of food in Gaza after Israel refused to work with the UN’s World Food Program”. The report records that a retired United States special forces officer who left that organization said in July he had witnessed war crimes at its food distribution sites; that is the report's account of a third person and nothing on the card rests on it. It then says: “But Baumgartner said he believes the World Food Program is ‘just totally dominated by Hamas right now,’ based on what he was told by the Americans working for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.” Asked why the government of Israel would not allow more food into Gaza, he said “the people need to be fed” before returning to press coverage, and then: “I think the Israeli government has done a poor job in losing the press narrative of what’s gone on there. The United Nations food program I don’t think is an honest broker or an honest communicator about what’s actually gone on there.” The report separates those two sentences with “he said” and they are quoted here as the page prints them. He also said he wants the people of Gaza “to have a good life” and recounted visiting a Palestinian refugee camp as a high schooler in 1994.
• [Position, 2025-10-07] His statement on the second anniversary of the October 7 attack and the talks in Egypt: “Guided by President Trump’s 20-point framework—and sustained by U.S. diplomacy with Egypt and Qatar—mediators are in Cairo working toward a ceasefire, a release of all hostages, and an end to the fighting. I pray these talks make real progress—swiftly. Any outcome must ensure Israel’s security, bring hostages home, uphold human dignity, and open space for relief and reconstruction in Gaza. On this solemn anniversary, we choose remembrance, resolve, and just peace.”
• [Position, 2025-02-14] His National Review piece on foreign aid, republished in part by his office, argues for returning the United States Agency for International Development to what he calls its roots as an arm of national security, and says direct food assistance “has helped feed the hungry abroad while supporting American farmers at home”. Neither Gaza nor the Palestinians nor the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees appears in the excerpt his office prints; the full article would not render for us.
• Nothing located, at any date, in which he speaks about the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East by name, or says how much humanitarian money the United States should send to Gaza.

Characterization of the conflict

• [Position, 2025-08-12] From the same interview: “You have to root out Hamas to give the Palestinian people a chance to have something other than a death cult leading them.” He said he wants “to create a just and lasting peace” between Israelis and Palestinians, that the “land for peace” approach has failed and must be replaced by “a new paradigm” of peace first and land for the Palestinians afterwards, and that expanding the Abraham Accords, which he called “a permission structure” for Arab countries to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, is a precondition for peace. On the Ariel settlement in the West Bank, which the delegation visited: “I don’t think it’s super productive”, and then, after the attribution, “I’m not saying those concerns aren’t legitimate, but insofar as the U.S. and western diplomatic engagement is concerned, the focal point right now shouldn’t be on exactly which settlement is where. It needs to be on the bigger picture – really suppressing and rooting out Hamas, and then working on the other Arab states.” On the conduct of the war: “The point I’m making is that I think Israel is taking great concern, and appropriately so, to safeguard the population of Gaza, and is in the middle of a bloody counterinsurgency with an extremely dedicated terrorist enemy. It’s an extremely difficult situation that I think they’re doing, relatively speaking, a good job on.” And: “Israel’s held to a higher standard, I think, than any force in western history on this. Focusing on Israeli actions, really in a double standard, really prolongs the war and gives Hamas confidence that they’re winning, and it just perpetuates the misery for everybody.” He also said of Arab citizens of Israel, “Probably the freest Muslims in the Middle East live in Israel”, and said the Israeli prime minister's stated plan to take Gaza City looked to him like a negotiating tactic. It is all in the same report.
• [Position, 2025-08-12] His own office's account of the trip, which records that he met the Israeli prime minister, the Israeli president and the United States ambassador and discussed “joint missile defense cooperation, regional stability, and the shared threat posed by Iran and its proxy militias”. He is quoted: “Standing at the site of such senseless violence was heartbreaking. It reinforces why the United States must stand firmly with Israel in the fight against terrorism.” And: “Israel is a special place with special people, and I deeply value the country’s enduring friendship with America. We stand united against terror and committed to ensuring peace and security in the region.” The release records that he first travelled to the Middle East 30 years ago to study in Syria and Jordan. It does not say who paid for the trip; the interview above does.
• [Position, 2025-10-07] In the anniversary statement above: “Two years ago, Hamas carried out the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. We remember the innocent lives taken, stand with survivors and families, and continue to pray for the safe return of every hostage.”
• [Position, 2026-07-26] Arab News Pakistan's report of an interview he and Rep. Ryan Zinke gave to Pakistan TV in Islamabad, published July 26, 2026. He is quoted: “We were impressed with the role that Pakistan played in what was going on with the US and Iran, and similarly Pakistan joined the Board of Peace and played a constructive role in Gaza too.” The report explains that the Board of Peace is an international body formed by President Trump for peace and reconstruction in Gaza, which Pakistan joined in January. Rep. Zinke's words in the same report are his.
• [Reaction window, 2023-11-13, claimed] Our research reported a public Facebook post of that date in which he called himself a “strong supporter of Israel” and mentioned a trip to Masada. The address it gave for the post belongs to Rep. Michael Guest of Mississippi, a different member of Congress, and it does not open. No post of Baumgartner's carrying those words was located. Nothing is written from it, and it would be off the card by its date in any event.

Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying

• [Position, 2025-08-03 to 2025-08-11] LegiStorm's entry for his privately funded trip to Tel Aviv beginning August 3, 2025. Only the entry's title is readable without an account, so the sponsor is taken from his own words to The Spokesman-Review, where he said the trip was organized by the American Israel Educational Foundation, the charitable arm of the lobbying group AIPAC. The tracked funding total on this record is shown in the card's record section and is a separate matter from the trip.
• [Position, 2025-04-26] The Commentator, the student newspaper of Yeshiva University, reporting the university's political action club's annual lobbying trip to Washington, published April 27, 2025. It says that “Rep. Michael Baumgartner, a Republican from Washington, spoke to students about his support for Israel, emphasizing how Israel’s role as an ally in the Middle East and a counter to Iran is in the strong interest of the U.S.”, that he spoke about his service in Iraq, and that he argued Marxism and “wokeism” had contributed to the rise in antisemitism. Only the word “unfathomable” is quoted as his. The article says the students lobbied for Iron Dome funding among other things; it does not say that he endorsed that. This is a third party's account of what he said and is used for nothing on the card.
• [Position, 2025-03-27] The Republican Jewish Coalition's newsletter, published by a Jewish Republican advocacy organization, records that he and Rep. Tim Walberg introduced the DETERRENT Act, which lowers the threshold for universities to disclose foreign gifts from $250,000 to $50,000, and that the House passed it 241 to 169. No words of his are quoted. The rest of that newsletter is about amendments offered by another member and is not about him.
• [Position, read 2026-09-18] His campaign site and its issues page. The issues page lists six headings: border security, the Snake River dams, keeping America strong, the economy, violent crime and supporting service members. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas, antisemitism, AIPAC and UNRWA appear nowhere on the site's home, about, issues, supporters or get-involved pages. Its news archive republishes press coverage, including one item headed “Back from Weeklong Trip to Israel, Baumgartner Reflects”, posted in March 2026, which carries a two-sentence summary and links to the Spokesman-Review interview used on this card.
• [Undated; read 2026-09-18] His iVoterGuide profile for this race. The guide's questionnaire asks “Is the United States’ relationship with Israel important, and if so why?” and his entry against that question is blank, as it is against almost every other question on the form; the remainder are marked “Choose not to answer”. A form he did not fill in is a fact about the form rather than a position, and nothing is inferred from it either way.

Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what America sends)

• [Position, 2026-09-09] At the September 2026 debate, after saying American involvement in Israel serves the United States' interest: “But if you’re trafficking in conspiracy theories like Tucker Carlson or some of the vile stuff on the left from Hasan Piker and these people that promote Hamas and say America deserves 9/11, you should be ashamed, and we’re not going to stand for it.” The report says he called out “very vile” antisemitism on both sides of the aisle.
• [Position, 2025-05-22] His statement on the killing of two Israeli embassy staff near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington: “I’m deeply saddened by the brutal attack near the Capital Jewish Museum that claimed the lives of two members of the Israeli Embassy. This was a deliberate, antisemitic act of violence targeting our allies and the principles we stand for.” He named Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim.
• [Position, 2025-07-15] The House Education and the Workforce Committee's page for the hearing “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology”. The Los Angeles Times's report of that hearing records him pressing the Berkeley chancellor on transparency about foreign spending and donors, and The Hoya, Georgetown's student newspaper, reports him questioning Georgetown's interim president about Qatari funding. The Jewish Independent reported his questioning of Haverford's president at an earlier hearing on May 15, 2025. These are reports of committee proceedings about disclosure of foreign money to American universities, not about what the United States sends abroad.
• [Position, 2025-10-07] In the anniversary statement above: “Terror must be condemned without equivocation, and antisemitism must be confronted wherever it appears.”
• [Position, 2025-04-10] His bill with Rep. Jared Moskowitz to sanction hostage-takers, cleared by the Foreign Affairs Committee. It is aimed at state-sponsored hostage-taking of American nationals with a focus on Iran, and requires a report on $6 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets. It is about Americans held abroad, not about what the United States sends to any government in this conflict. Rep. Moskowitz's words in the release are his.

What his campaign site and his own pages say

• [Position, read 2026-09-18] His campaign site is organized around six issue headings and a list of federal projects delivered to the district. Foreign policy appears in none of them. The quotation on its home page under his name is about border crossings, crime, taxes and the Lower Snake River dams.
• [Position, read 2026-09-18] His congressional issues page on national security carries one sentence of his own, about keeping the Chinese government from buying strategic American assets, and then lists recent press releases. The full press release archive runs to 91 items from January 2025 to September 2026.
• [Read 2026-09-18] His Ballotpedia page records that he assumed office on January 3, 2025 and sits on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, and Foreign Affairs committees, and that he did not complete Ballotpedia's candidate survey in 2022 or 2024. The campaign biography it reproduces from 2024 records his work as a State Department officer in Baghdad in 2007 and 2008, a counter-narcotics posting in Afghanistan and earlier business work in the Middle East. It says nothing about Israel. The Spokesman-Review's candidate profile gives the same three committees.

The race

• [Read 2026-09-18] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in Washington's 5th District: “Incumbent Michael Baumgartner and Carmela Conroy are running in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 5 on November 3, 2026.” Washington runs a top-two primary; on August 4, 2026 Baumgartner took 95,463 votes, 47.4 percent, and Conroy 38,154 votes, 18.9 percent, in a field of twelve, and the two advanced. The filing deadline was May 8, 2026. The same page records that he defeated Conroy in the general election on November 5, 2024.
• [Position, 2026-07-05] The Spokesman-Review's report of a ten-candidate forum at Spokane's Central Library, at which American military aid to the government of Israel was one of the three main subjects. Baumgartner did not attend; the report says he had said he would not take part in primary debates. The answers the other candidates gave are theirs and belong on their own cards.
• Carmela Conroy's record is written separately, and nothing from her side of the September 2026 debate is used here.

Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them

• The KHQ report of his return from Israel. Its address, printed rather than linked because it does not open, is https://www.khq.com/news/congressman-baumgartner-shares-about-visit-to-israel-prime-minister-netanyahu-and-gaza/article_2ed00df4-1089-40d6-b646-8633e3fc1104.html . It refused both routes on 2026-09-18, first with a rate-limit response and then with a legal-restriction response. Search listings indicate it carries further remarks of his about food distribution in Gaza. It is the one page that could add to this card.
• The two National Review articles behind the excerpts his office republished, at https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/02/overhaul-foreign-aid-to-serve-american-interests/ and https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/america-must-lead-in-the-middle-east-with-strength-not-slogans/ . Both return a page whose article text does not render for us by either route. Only the excerpts printed on his own congressional site were read.
• Congress.gov, which refused every request on 2026-09-18, including https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1229 . The cosponsor list and the bill text for H.R. 1229 were read from GovTrack and from the bill's own published XML instead, both of which opened.
• The body of the LegiStorm travel filing, which needs an account. Only its title was readable.
• The Facebook address our research gave for a 2023 post, https://www.facebook.com/RepMichaelGuest/posts/supporting-israel-is-of-utmost-importance-i-shared-why-and-how-i-have-been-suppo/943520070778954/ , which belongs to a different member of Congress and returns an error.
• https://www.localcandidates.org/politicians/michael-baumgartner/positions/22e85d0d-7525-47b4-bd77-4d2679cd84d0 , a host this project does not use.
• His accounts on X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, all listed on his campaign site: https://twitter.com/VoteBaumgartner , https://www.facebook.com/VoteBaumgartner , https://www.instagram.com/votebaumgartner , http://tiktok.com/@votebaumgartner and https://www.youtube.com/VoteBaumgartner . None was read here and nothing is claimed from them.

Not on the card, and why

• Everything he has said about Iran: the resolution of June 27, 2025, the earlier resolution of May 13, 2025, the hostage-takers bill, the blockade of Iranian oil, the war that began in February 2026, and the passages about Iran inside statements that are otherwise in scope. Iran is a different question from what the United States sends to the government of Israel. Where an Iran clause sits inside a sentence of his that is quoted whole, the quotation keeps its own words and nothing is built on it.
• Missile defense: the call in his June 2025 resolution for continued support of Israel's missile defense systems, the joint missile defense programs named in his office's summary of the fiscal 2026 defense authorization, and the joint sites the delegation visited. All three are above and in the deep dive; by standing rule they stay off the fifty-word front.
• His questioning of university presidents about foreign gifts and campus antisemitism, and the DETERRENT Act. Context about safety and about disclosure of foreign money to universities, not an answer to what America sends.
• The words of Rep. August Pfluger, Rep. Zach Nunn, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, Rep. Ryan Zinke and the ten candidates at the July 2026 forum. Other people's words.
• The Spokesman-Review's own sentence describing him as a strong supporter of the Israeli state and of the American aid supporting it. It is a reporter's characterization rather than his words; it is quoted in full above and the card rests on his own quoted sentence from the same report.
• The claimed Facebook post of November 13, 2023. It is dated inside the weeks this site keeps to the research page, the address given for it belongs to another member of Congress, and no such post of his was located.
• The agriculture, dams, veterans, immigration, crime, artificial intelligence, chipmaking, China and appropriations material that fills most of his newsroom and all of his campaign site. Out of scope. The subjects are named here so a reader can see what the rest of the record covers.
• Carmela Conroy's record and her answers at the September 2026 debate. Another candidate's record belongs on that candidate's own card.
• The recorded votes, the tracked bill sponsorship and the tracked funding total. All three are shown in this card's record section.

Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)

• https://baumgartner.house.gov/category/press-releases/ and all 91 items it lists, January 2025 to September 2026 (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/category/in-the-news/ and all 8 items it lists (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/2025/08/12/baumgartner-returns-bipartisan-congressional-delegation-visit-israel/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-08-12)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/2025/10/07/baumgartner-issues-statement-october-7-anniversary-and-egypt-peace-talks/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-10-07)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/2025/06/27/baumgartner-pfluger-nunn-champion-resolution-end-irans-nuclear-threat-and/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-06-27)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/2025/09/02/baumgartner-bill-speed-allied-defense-sales-arms-export-licenses-passes-strong/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-09-02)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/2025/12/10/baumgartner-issues-statement-on-final-passage-of-fy26-ndaa/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-12-10)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/2026/07/22/baumgartner-issues-statement-on-final-passage-of-fy27-ndaa/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-07-22)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/2025/05/22/baumgartner-responds-deadly-attack-israeli-embassy-staff/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-05-22)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/2025/04/10/baumgartner-moskowitz-bipartisan-bill-sanction-hostage-takers-clears-foreign/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-04-10)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/2025/02/14/baumgartner-overhaul-foreign-aid-serve-american-interests/ and https://baumgartner.house.gov/2025/05/05/america-must-lead-middle-east-strength-not-slogans/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-02-14 and 2025-05-05)
• https://baumgartner.house.gov/issues/national-security/ (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/aug/12/back-from-weeklong-trip-to-israel-baumgartner-refl/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-08-12)
• https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/sep/09/baumgartner-and-conroy-face-off-on-iran-israel-and/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-09-09, updated 2026-09-11)
• https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/jul/16/wa-democrats-split-on-vote-to-cut-us-military-aid-/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-07-16)
• https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/jul/05/congressional-candidates-debate-immigration-electa/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-07-05)
• https://www.spokesman.com/elections/2026/washington-primary-election-aug-4/candidates/michael-baumgartner/ (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://votebaumgartner.com/ , https://www.votebaumgartner.com/in-congress and the campaign's news pages, including its post on the Israel trip (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://ballotpedia.org/Washington%27s_5th_Congressional_District_election,_2026 and https://ballotpedia.org/Michael_Baumgartner_%28Washington%29 (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/3591/race/2692/election/1247?culture=en-us (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1229/cosponsors and https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr1229/BILLS-119hr1229ih.xml (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://yucommentator.org/2025/04/yupac-holds-annual-lobbying-trip-to-washington/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-04-27)
• https://www.arabnews.pk/pakistan/visiting-us-congressmen-praise-pakistan-for-iran-war-mediation-gaza-peace-efforts-2652326 (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-07-26)
• https://www.rjchq.org/rjc_e_newsletter_20250327 (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=412646 , https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-15/uc-berkeley-chancellor-rich-lyons-congressional-committee-antisemitism , https://thehoya.com/news/news-top/during-congressional-testimony-groves-strikes-a-middle-ground-on-questions-of-antisemitism-qatari-influence/ and https://thejewishindependent.com.au/us-college-presidents-face-firing-line-over-antisemitism/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-07-15, 2025-07-15, 2025-07-16 and 2025-05-15)
• https://www.legistorm.com/trip/61162.html (title only; 2026-09-18)
• https://www.khq.com/news/congressman-baumgartner-shares-about-visit-to-israel-prime-minister-netanyahu-and-gaza/article_2ed00df4-1089-40d6-b646-8633e3fc1104.html , https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1229 , https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/02/overhaul-foreign-aid-to-serve-american-interests/ and https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/america-must-lead-in-the-middle-east-with-strength-not-slogans/ (could not open or would not render; 2026-09-18)
• This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-18, not a claim that no other statement exists.