Press Releases
Washington, DC - Congressmen Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Mike Gallagher (R-WI) introduced the Strengthening Tools to Counter the Use of Human Shields Act that enhances sanctions enforcement and implementation against terrorist organizations that use innocent civilians as human shields - a scheme Hamas terrorists are employing during their horrendous attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-32), senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Co-Chair of the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus, and the most senior Democrat on the House of Representatives-Knesset Parliamentary Friendship Group, has been outspoken on the need to support Israel since the start of the horrendous attack by Hamas terrorists on October 7th, 2023.
Co-Chairs of the Israel Allies Caucus, Reps. Brad Sherman (CA-32), Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Brad Schneider (IL-10), and Chris Smith (NJ-10) released the following statement on October 7, 2023:
We do not yet know the full extent of the horrors perpetuated against Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists, and we will likely learn of further war crimes by Hamas as new information surfaces in the coming hours and days. But what we've already seen are some of the most horrific images imaginable: elderly women slaughtered while waiting at a bus stop; dozens, including children, young women, and the elderly, kidnapped and taken into the Gaza strip; bodies of the dead desecrated and paraded around. The death toll has already reached 200 and is likely to continue to rise.
WASHINGTON, DC - The Republican-led House voted Tuesday to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (CA-R.) as Speaker of the House of Representatives - the first such removal in congressional history.
Republicans seem indifferent to whether our men and women in uniform get paid, or whether pregnant women and infants get food.
Washington DC – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauds President Joe Biden's breakthrough announcement that Israel would enter the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. The announcement comes 11 years after Congressman Sherman introduced the original bill to allow Israel's entrance into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. Sherman's Visa Waiver for Israel Act was originally introduced in May of 2012.
Washington, D.C.– On September 19th, National Voter Registration Day, Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-32-D) joined every House Democrat in introducing H.R. 14, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bill would protect the right to vote and safeguard our democracy by restoring andmodernizing the full protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA).
Washington, D.C. – Today the House Financial Services Committee unanimously passed Congressman Brad Sherman's (D-CA)H.R. 5512 theRussia and Belarus Financial Sanctions Act which directs U.S. financial institutions to ensure their foreign subsidiaries comply with U.S.