Opinion-Editorial
With the acute phase of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank debacle coming to a close, Congress now has an opportunity to make the financial system safer.
There are only three dozen medium-sized banks — with between $50 and $250 billion in total assets — in the United States. Two failed within a week, and several others needed help to survive. Clearly, better regulation of this sector is needed.
I write regarding your December 29th editorial titled Double Standards on Gerrymandering. I applaud you for focusing on the once-a-decade process by which congressional and legislative districts are redrawn after the census, and in decrying the process called "gerrymandering," where the lines are drawn to advantage one political party over the other.
Investors on U.S. stock exchanges deserve not only independent audits, but oversight of the auditors.
The Kennedy-Sherman bill requires Chinese companies listed on American exchanges to allow the same Public Company Auditor Oversight Board supervision of their auditors as companies from the U.S. and most of the world.
Since October of 2016, the intelligence community has repeatedly issued public warnings that the government of Russia is actively interfering in U.S. elections. In the last two months, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Director of the FBI, and Treasury Department have each publicly confirmed that Russia is working to influence the 2020 U.S. election.
The world will observe Human Rights Day on December 10. As Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Sindh and Ranking Member of the Asia Subcommittee in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I have repeatedly drawn attention to human rights abuses in the Sindh province of Pakistan, and Human Rights Day is an appropriate time to reiterate my concerns.
I am writing not as a Congressman or tax expert, but as the proud father of a wonderful child with special needs. No group will be hurt more by the Trump tax plan than families with children with disabilities.
On January 3, 2017, I once again swore to protect and defend the Constitution. Our Constitution calls for the impeachment of a President who has committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Obstruction of Justice is a felony under the United States Criminal Code. See § 1512 (b)(3) of the U.S. Criminal Code. It applies when anyone uses threats to hinder a federal criminal investigation. While this section is commonly applied to witness intimidation, the Courts have consistently ruled that it is also applicable when one threatens an FBI agent or other law enforcement official.
Although the federal government continually threatens to shut down due to political gridlock, my office will always remain open to Valley residents. That is because only part of my job is working on legislation in the House of Representatives, and in the Foreign Affairs and Financial Services Committees. An equally important part of my job is my work here in the San Fernando Valley, communicating with Valley residents and helping to resolve problems that people are having with federal agencies.