Washington DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, the Ranking Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the extension of a provision known as the “Lautenberg Amendment,” to make it easier for...
Rep. Berman Commends Decision to Drop Dutch Ritual Slaughter Bill
Washington DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign AffairsCommittee, applauded the decision by the Dutch parliament to drop consideration of proposed legislation...
Rep. Berman Hails House Passage of Iran Sanctions Bill
Washington, DC – Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded today’s passage by the House of H.R 1905, the Iran Threat Reduction Act. One of the...
Rep. Berman Applauds House Passage of Resolution Urging Turkey to Return Confiscated Churches
Washington, DC – Congressman Howard L. Berman, senior Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, today applauded the passage of House Resolution 306, a resolution urging Turkey to return churches...
Rep. Berman Decries Rejection of Nomination for Salvadoran Ambassador
Washington DC - Ranking Member Howard L. Berman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee made the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked the nomination of Mari Carmen Aponte as permanent...
International Religious Freedom Caucus Co-Chairs, Berman Rebuke Dutch Attempts to Ban Ritual Slaughter
Washington, DC - Congressional International Religious Freedom Caucus co-Chairmen Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Heath Shuler (D-NC), and Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Howard Berman (D-CA) were...
Congressman Howard Berman Calls for Increased Pressure on Iran
Washington, DC – Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered a major policy speech calling for increased pressure on Iran to prevent the...
Ranking Member Berman Calls for Accelerated Implementation of Sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran
Rep. Howard Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today sent a letter to the conferees for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 proposing the...
Ranking Member Berman Applauds President Obama’s Announcement to Protect LGBT Community Abroad
Washington D.C.- Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to President Obama’s memorandum on International...
Rep. Howard Berman Statement on Sanctioning the Central Bank of Iran
My position on sanctioning Iran’s Central Bank has been intentionally distorted for purely political reasons. So let me set the record straight.In early November, I was the first member of the House...