Foreign Policy
Washington D.C. – Three Republican Senators, recently returned from Libya, have authored an editorial in the Wall Street Journal urging that we help the Libyan transitional government with the enormous task of rebuilding the country after 42 years of tyranny and seven months of war (The Promise of a Pro-American Libya). In response Congressman Brad Sherman (D –CA), the to
Washington, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) wrote to Permanent Representatives from 81 countries to the United Nations to oppose a unilateral attempt by the Palestinians to declare statehood at the UN later this month. The 81 countries, from every corner of the world, are the likely "swing states" (out of 193 total UN member states) that are not firmly decided on the issue.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman is again introducing legislation to revoke Most Favored Nation (MFN) status for China and direct the President to negotiate a new trading relationship that is designed to eliminate the trade imbalance. Sherman first introduced the legislation in the previous session of Congress in 2010.
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WASHINGTON, DC – By a vote of 248 to 163, the House voted to pass the Sherman Amendment to the Military Construction–Veterans’ Affairs Appropriations bill. The amendment reads: “None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of the War Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1541).”
Sherman’s statement in favor of his amendment follows:
Washington, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman offered an amendment to H.R. 2017, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act in the House. The amendment prohibits funds provided by the bill from being used to conduct military operations which violate the War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Act).
Washington, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, handed Dr. Mahmoud Jibril, the Interim "Prime Minister" of the Transitional National Council of Libya, in a meeting at 3 P.M. today on Capitol Hill.
Washington, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, released the following statement today on the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces, as confirmed by President Obama last night:
“The successful killing of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, by U.S. forces, is a major victory in the global fight against al-Qaeda and its affiliates.
Washington, DC -- Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) today released the following response to the document issued by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) regarding the Kaesong Industrial Zone and how the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (Agreement) would treat goods produced at this facility:
Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) today released the following statement on the planned consideration of the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement:
Congress should reject the pending FTA with South Korea. It is likely that the United States would be opened up to North Korean goods under the agreement's liberal rules of origin.
Goods with up to 65 percent non-South Korean content can enter the United States with preferential, often duty free, treatment under this agreement. Nothing in this agreement prevents that foreign content from being North Korean.