Press Releases
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Brad Sherman secured $800,000 for projects in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in legislation that President Bush signed on Wednesday.
The funds are expected to be used to complete the Backbone Trail, and to improve access in Tarzana for San Fernando Valley residents entering the mountain trail network.
œThe park is a national treasure right here in the Valleys back yard. Sherman said. œImproving the trails will let hikers and other park visitors enjoy the mountains even more.
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Brad Sherman on Wednesday urged Los Angeles County officials to make the company that owns Sunshine Canyon Landfill accept long-term responsibility for the sites safety.
œThe public should not be left holding the bag, Sherman told the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission.
The panel is considering a conditional use permit for Browning-Ferris Industries to continue operating the San Fernando Valley landfill.
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Brad Sherman announced Friday that he secured more than $13 million for San Fernando Valley road improvements and mass-transit projects, including $9,083,185 for the West Valley.
The highway bill includes:
Washington, D.C. - A transportation bill headed for final passage by Congress would clear the way for California and other states to allow hybrid vehicles on HOV lanes.
Congressman Brad Sherman earlier this year introduced hybrid car legislation along with a California colleague, Congressman Darrell Issa.
œThis will give California and other states a way to ease freeway congestion and encourage the use of more fuel-efficient cars, Sherman said.
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Brad Sherman said Tuesday that a proposed trade treaty with Central American nations and the Dominican Republic would cost American jobs, fail to protect foreign workers, harm the environment, and cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars.
Sherman was among a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers opposing the Central American Free Trade Agreement who were joined at a Capitol Hill rally by representatives from religious, business, labor, environmental and human rights organizations.
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Brad Sherman on Friday released a new report https://node/2 detailing how San Fernando Valley residents would face steep Social Security benefit cuts under a proposal by President Bush.
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Brad Sherman on Thursday urged House colleagues to join him in calling on Great Britain to keep out of England a radical sheik who has advocated terrorism.
Sheik Yussuf al-Qaradawi, a Qatari-based cleric, has hailed those who commit suicide bombings, called for the murder of Jews, and advocated the use of children in terrorist attacks. In an interview about Palestinian suicide operations against Israelis, he told the BBC in 2004 that he œconsiders this type of martyrdom operation as an evidence of Gods justice
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Brad Sherman said Wednesday he will introduce legislation to allow Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to stay on the job after his current term expires early next year.
During a Greenspan appearance before the House Financial Services Committee, Sherman said the law setting Federal Reserve Board term limits should be changed so the chief of the nations central bank could remain in office for five more years after his term expires next January 31.
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Brad Sherman on Thursday urged a commission reviewing Pentagon plans for military base consolidation to stop an œimpractical shift of thousands of jobs from a Navy installation at Point Mugu to China Lake.
œIt does not make logistical or economic sense, Sherman said of the proposed transfer of weapons and electronic warfare functions from Naval Base Ventura County to the Naval Air Weapons Station located 150 miles away at China Lake.
Washington, D.C. - {President Bush should keep his word and fire top White House aide Karl Rove for leaking information about a Central Intelligence Agency undercover operative, Congressman Brad Sherman said Wednesday.
œThe president said he would fire any White House staffer who leaked the identity of an undercover operative, Sherman said. œNow that Karl Rove has been exposed as one of the leakers, the president should keep his word without delay and without making more excuses.