US lawmaker Josh Gottheimer
The House should “commend the heroic actions of the off-duty pilots, cabin crew, and passengers who secured the flight deck and brought the aircraft safely down” and condemn the attack as “an act of terrorism and as an attack on the safety of international civil aviation, according to the congressional resolution. Machchhar’s heroism, meanwhile, has provided a point of uncomplicated convergence among India, the U.S and Israel. For Gottheimer, the resolution fits neatly into a congressional career built around national security, Israel and bipartisan cooperation. A fifth-term Democrat, he is the ranking member of the National Security Agency and Cyber Subcommittee on the House Intelligence Committee. He is also a member of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans who worked as a speechwriter in the Clinton White House before moving through the private sector and eventually to Congress. Machchhar’s heroism is also an unlikely but powerful bridge at a moment when the broader India-U.S. relationship is being tested by the transactional politics of the MAGA era. the U.S Congress is sending a different message: whatever the disputes between Washington and New Delhi, an Indian professional who risked his life to save Americans, Israelis and other passengers can still command bipartisan American admiration While governments argue over tariffs and Russian oil.