Foreign Policy

Washington, DC – Today the House of Representatives passed an amendment, proposed by Congressman Sherman, which blocks the United States from selling nuclear power equipment to Saudi Arabia without strong safeguards to prevent Riyadh from building nuclear weapons. The House adopted the language as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which is expected to pass the House on Friday.

Washington, DC – Congressman Sherman secured significant nonproliferation commitments from Energy Secretary Rick Perry today at a hearing of the House Committee on Science, Technology, and Space.

In response to a question from Congressman Sherman, Secretary Perry said that the United States would not enter into a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia unless Saudi signs the Additional Protocol.

Washington, DC – Today Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), introduced the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Act of 2019 in the House of Representatives. This legislation would harness the resources of at least ten government agencies to help counter China's multifaceted challenges to the United States. In the Senate, the bill was introduced by Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Tim Kaine (D-VA).

I stand in solidarity with the Armenian American community in commemorating the February 1988 Sumgait Pogroms. Thirty-one years ago in the Azerbaijani town of Sumgait, peaceful Armenian residents were brutally targeted on the basis of their ethnicity and subjected to unspeakable crimes. In March 1988, The Economist reported the atrocities and documented the murder and mutilation of pregnant Armenian women and newborn babies in a maternity hospital.

Washington (February 28, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-30), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation, and Congressman Ted Yoho (FL-03) today introduced legislation that increases Congressional oversight over any civil nuclear cooperation agreement – or 123 agreement – between the United States and Saudi Arabia.

Walking away from Hanoi without an agreement or substantive declaration was the right move. No deal is better than a bad deal, and this would have been such a bad deal that Trump could not have sold it even to his base.

Today the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation held a hearing with Bill Richardson, the former Governor of New Mexico and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Victor Cha, the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, to preview President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's summit. Both Governor Richardson and Dr. Cha have extensive experience negotiating with the North Korean regime.

Congressman Brad Sherman, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, today announced that Bill Richardson, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Governor of New Mexico, will testify before the Subcommittee on February 26^th.