Lindsey Graham
American lawyer and politician
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| 2025 | Became chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. |
| January 2025 | Graham publicly criticized several of Trump's presidential actions, including pardoning January 6 defendants and removing security details from former national security officials. |
| January 14 2025 | Lindsey Graham announced lead officials for his 2026 Senate re-election campaign, including the former Chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party and Governor Henry McMaster's campaign manager. He also reported $15.6 million in campaign fundraising. |
| November 23 2024 | Graham argued that allied countries like Canada, UK, Germany, and France should be sanctioned if they assist the ICC in response to arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. |
| September 2024 | Graham attempted to lobby Nebraska's legislature to change its electoral college voting system to prevent Kamala Harris from potentially receiving an electoral vote, but the effort failed. |
| July 5 2024 | Graham claimed Palestinians in Gaza are 'the most radicalized population on the planet', a statement condemned by CAIR. |
| May 29 2024 | Graham met with Netanyahu and called ICJ President Nawaf Salam a 'raving antisemite'. Netanyahu noted Graham has been a strong supporter of Israel. |
| May 20 2024 | Graham called for sanctions against the ICC in response to the Chief Prosecutor's intention to seek arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials for war crimes. |
| May 11 2024 | Graham, along with 11 other Republican senators, introduced a resolution condemning the Biden administration's actions to withhold or restrict ammunition and weapons to Israel. |
| May 10 2024 | Graham stated that he trusts Israel more than U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. |
| May 8 2024 | Graham warned the Pentagon against halting arms supply to Israel, making a controversial comparison to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which sparked debate in the Japanese National Diet. |
| April 2024 | Graham criticized Trump for not supporting a federal abortion ban, leading Trump to express regret for previously endorsing Graham. |
| April 2024 | Graham joined 79 colleagues in passing the appropriations bill after it was repackaged as separate bills. |
| March 9 2024 | Graham claimed that Palestinian children have been taught to 'kill all the Jews' through UNRWA and other agencies, suggesting the Palestinian school system needs to be 'destroyed'. |
| February 13 2024 | Graham initially voted against the Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan appropriations bill due to border control issues. |
| January 28 2024 | Graham appears at Trump's first prime-time 2024 campaign rally and publicly supports his candidacy. |
| 2023 | Graham voted against the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, joining 30 other Senate Republicans in opposing the legislation. |
| 2023 | The Lugar Center ranked Lindsey Graham in the top third of senators for bipartisanship, highlighting his collaborative approach to politics. |
| November 2023 | Co-sponsored the Foreign Pollution Fee Act with Bill Cassidy, proposing a carbon tariff on energy and industrial imports based on their emission intensity. |
| October 31 2023 | Graham stated that no amount of civilian casualties in Gaza would cause him to question Israel's goal of eradicating Hamas. |
| October 10 2023 | Graham tweeted support for Israel during the Israel–Hamas war, declaring he 'unapologetically stands with Israel' and calling the conflict a 'religious war', suggesting Gaza should be 'flattened'. |
| May 29 2023 | The Russian Interior Ministry issued an arrest warrant for Graham, to which he responded by tweeting he would 'wear the warrant as a Badge of Honor'. |
| May 26 2023 | Graham was criticized by Russian officials after making comments about Russian casualties during an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. |
| January 28 2023 | Graham appeared at Trump's first prime-time 2024 campaign rally and publicly supported Trump's candidacy. |
| 2022 | Graham reiterated his support of the Defense of Marriage Act, maintaining his long-standing position on traditional marriage. |
| 2022 | Graham became one of ten Republican senators to support a bipartisan gun control agreement, which included provisions for red flag laws, crisis intervention orders, school safety funding, enhanced background checks for young buyers, and penalties for straw purchases. |
| September 2022 | Graham introduced federal legislation to ban abortion after 15 weeks nationwide, contradicting his previous stance on states' rights, with exceptions for rape, incest, and patient's life. |
| August 2022 | Graham stated that states should determine abortion policy and claimed consistency in his position. |
| August 2022 | After the House of Representatives approved a bill to recognize same-sex marriages at the federal level, Graham stated that states should decide the issue of marriage and opposed federal government intervention in defining marriage. |
| June 2022 | Graham claimed that conservatives believe the Constitution does not grant the federal government the right to regulate abortion. |
| May 2022 | Graham advocated for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, arguing that each state should independently decide abortion's legal status. |
| March 3 2022 | Graham tweeted a controversial statement suggesting someone in Russia should 'take out' Vladimir Putin in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| February 2022 | Graham collaborated with Richard Blumenthal to introduce bipartisan legislation (EARN IT Act) aimed at incentivizing tech companies to remove child sexual abuse material from online platforms and eliminate blanket immunity for online child pornography violations. |
| 2021 | Became ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
| 2021 | Became ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. |
| July 8 2021 | Lindsey Graham publicly criticized President Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal plan, calling it a 'disaster in the making' as the Taliban began launching an offensive against the Afghan government |
| January 6 2021 | During the Capitol attack, Graham was evacuated and later spoke against delaying the election certification, acknowledging Biden and Harris as lawfully elected. |
| 2020 | Sponsored the Growing Climate Solutions Act, a bill aimed at simplifying carbon credit sales for farmers in existing carbon trading markets. |
| 2020 | Graham was one of 13 Republican senators who chose not to sign an amicus brief requesting the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. |
| 2020 | Reelected to a fourth term in the U.S. Senate. |
| November 2020 | After the presidential election, Graham donated $500,000 to Trump's election lawsuits and argued that Trump should not concede. |
| November 3 2020 | Lindsey Graham defeated Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison in the South Carolina Senate race, winning by more than ten percentage points (54.4% to 44.2%) in a highly competitive election that attracted significant national attention and record fundraising. |
| October 2020 | Leads U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, who is confirmed. |
| September 2020 | Following Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, Graham immediately expressed support for the Senate voting on Trump's Supreme Court nominee, reversing his previous position from 2016. |
| August 2020 | Graham declared that 'after Kavanaugh's confirmation, the rules have changed' regarding Supreme Court nominations. |
| May 2020 | Graham stated the Senate would work to confirm a Supreme Court nominee before the November election, contradicting his previous 2016 stance. |
| 2019 | Graham shifted to a more supportive stance towards Saudi Arabia, praising the Trump administration for sending additional troops to Saudi Arabia to counter Iran's threat and commending Saudi Arabia for opening its airspace to Israeli flights. |
| December 2019 | Graham voted for the Senate resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, which passed unanimously. |
| November 2019 | Lindsey Graham blocked a Senate resolution to officially recognize the Armenian genocide. |
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