Denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming speech to Congress as a "reckless" piece of "high theater for a reelection campaign in Israel," U.S. Congressman Steve Cohen joined the list of Democrats who have announced they will boycott Tuesday's address. The Tennessee lawmaker also called on Congress to enforce the law against the videotaping of floor speeches for campaign ads, rebuking Netanyahu for using clips from a previous address to Congress in his 2013 campaign.

"The prime minister’s use of the U.S. House chamber as a stage to argue against the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, which is currently being negotiated among Iran and the P5+1 — the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, is reckless," Cohen said in a statement on Monday.

"The actions of the speaker [John Boehner] and the prime minister have caused a breach between Democrats in Congress and Israel as well as the administrations of the United States and Israel," he said.

Cohen joins a reported 22 other Democratic congress members and senators who've announced they will either deliberately miss Netanyahu's speech, or will not attend because, they claim, they are previously engaged. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry are in this latter group. President Barack Obama has ruled out meetings in Washington between himself or other administration officials and Netanyahu, saying it is the administration's policy not to meet with foreign leaders so close to an election, in this case two weeks before the March 17 Knesset election. Off the record, though, administration officials have accused Netanyahu of colluding with Boehner and Republicans to humiliate the president, and have promised payback.

Said Cohen: "Speaker Boehner and other Republicans supporting the speech are giving a foreign leader the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives as a forum to present a counterargument to the foreign policy peace efforts of the president of the United States, who has constitutional authority over foreign affairs.

"While Americans and members of Congress may disagree on anything, even foreign policy, providing a forum of such immense prestige and power to the leader of another country who is opposing our nation’s foreign policy is beyond the pale," he said.

Also on Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky said she, too, is skipping Netanyahu's speech to Congress.

The nine-term Illinois congresswoman said the speech should be postponed until after the Israeli elections next month. She said Boehner's invitation to Netanyahu without notifying Obama threatens Israel's security and undermines Congress' bipartisan support for Israel.

Schakowsky, who, like Cohen, is Jewish, says she strongly supports Israel and believes that Iran should never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon, the expected topic of Netanyahu's speech.

She is one of several lawmakers to forgo the speech. Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine on Wednesday also announced he'd skip the session.