Obama Calls Senate Panel He Isn’t on ‘My Committee’

Barack Obama claimed the Senate Banking Committee as his own Wednesday, despite not having a seat on the panel.

Explaining his commitment to Israel during a press conference in the country, Obama spoke of the Iran divestment bill that passed the Senate Banking Committee last week.

“Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds,” Obama said. “Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.”

Obama is the lead sponsor on the bill he mentions, but he does not have a seat on the committee chaired by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.). The Illinois senator has seats on four other committees.

The bill was approved by the committee last week by a vote of 19-2.