Washington DC – U.S. Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today called on the international community to redouble its efforts to provide...
ADVISORY
A hearing of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs: DATE: Wednesday, December 2, 2009TIME: 1:30 p.m. SUBJECT: U.S. Strategy in AfghanistanWITNESSES:The Honorable Hillary Rodham ClintonSecretary of...
Chairman Berman’s opening statement at hearing, “Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?”
Verbatim, as deliveredAmericans have the right to travel to Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, which seeks a nuclear weapons capability in violation of its obligations under the...
Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba?
Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman
Renowned Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez wrote an essay for the committee’s hearing on the travel ban.
In the suitcases: A reflection on the necessary liberalization of Americans’ travel to CubaAs on any island, what comes to us from the outside has always been something that catalyzes changes and...
The State of Political and Religious Freedom in the Middle East
Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY)
Flag on the Bag?: Foreign Assistance and the Struggle Against Terrorism
Brad Sherman (D-CA)
U.S. law lets American citizens travel to any country on earth, friend or foe — with one exception: Cuba. It’s time for us to scrap this anachronistic ban, imposed during one of the chilliest periods of the Cold War.
Click here to read this op-ed in the Miami Herald (Not available)
Copenhagen and Beyond: Is there a Successor to the Kyoto Protocol?
Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman
Berman Praises Administration for Lifting the HIV/AIDS Travel Ban
Washington DC – Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, congratulated the Obama Administration for lifting the 22-year old ban on travelers to the...