House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is in Tunisia with a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers who visited and placed a wreath at the Bardo National Museum, the site of the recent Islamic State terrorist attack.
McCarthy’s congressional delegation is among a trio of trips underway by Republican and Democratic leaders.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, traveled to Jordan while Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made a trip to Cambodia.
While in Tunisia, McCarthy, R-Calif., delivered an address pledging solidarity with the country, declaring “the terrorists who are enemies of Tunisia are the enemies of America, too.”
The museum was the site of a deadly attack by Islamic State terrorists on March 18. The terrorists killed 21 people, many of them European tourists.
“Democracy has many enemies, but it has more friends,” McCarthy said. “That is why we are here today, as friends of Tunisia’s young but important democracy. ”
The delegation included seven other lawmakers, among them Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich.; Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, chairwoman of the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee; and Rep. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat and member of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations.
