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Washington D.C. – In response to the S&P decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, released the following statement:
Ending So-Called "Right-to-Work" Laws Would Give Working People a Fair Deal
Washington, DC – Yesterday, Congressman Brad Sherman announced the introduction of dramatic legislation that would eliminate so-called "right-to-work" laws (H.R. 2775), which was applauded by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Sherman has a strong record of supporting working men and women and earned a 100% rating from the AFL-CIO.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Brad Sherman, Democrat from California, endorsed Senator McConnell's plan to allow an increase in the debt limit. Sherman had voted for a clean increase in the debt limit on May 31, 2011 in H.R. 1954.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressmen Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Michael Conaway (R-TX) announced the creation of the Bipartisan Congressional CPA Caucus. Congressman Sherman and Congressman Michael Conaway (R-TX) will act as co-chairs.
[Washington, DC] – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade issued the following statement concerning the proposed U.S. – South Korea Trade Pact:
"It's all well and good to increase exports, but not if we increase imports by an even larger amount. Every trade pact increases American employment in some industries, and costs jobs in other industries."
Small businesses are the foundation of our economy, and they are critical to the nation's number one priority: creating the kinds of jobs that will fuel our recovery.
I continue to work closely with business leaders from the San Fernando Valley and across the country to enact federal laws important to improving our business climate and recently I joined my colleagues in passing H.R. 5297, the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, by a vote of 237-187.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Brad Sherman announced the introduction of dramatic legislation, H.R. 6384, that would eliminate so-called "right-to-work" laws, which was applauded by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Sherman has a strong record of supporting working men and women and earned a 100% rating from the AFL-CIO.