Press Releases

Washington, D.C. – Today's announcement that President Donald Trump has ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program with a six-month delay will affect over 200,000 Californians that are currently part of the DACA program.

Washington, DC – This week, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) sent a letter to Alice G. Wells, the Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs and David Hale, the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan expressing strong concerns about human rights in Sindh.

Washington, D.C. – Following the President's comments that if North Korea continues to threaten the U.S. then it will be "met with fire and fury like the world has never seen before," and Defense Secretary James Mattis' warning that if its aggression continues the regime could face the "destruction of its people," Ranking Member Sherman of the Asia Pacific Subcommittee Brad Sherman released the following statement:

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressmen Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Peter King (R-NY) introduced a bipartisan House Resolution expressing support for the home mortgage interest and property tax deductions. Reps. Sherman and King were joined by Representatives Nanette Barragan (D-CA), Paul Cook (R-CA), Dan Donovan (R-NY), Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and Dina Titus (D-NV).

Washington, DC – On July 21 during Friday prayers, Imam Ammar Shahin, delivered a sermon at the Islamic Center of Davis, CA where he prayed to Allah to "liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews" and to "annihilate them down to the very last one." Congressman Sherman released the following statement in response:

It is unacceptable for anyone, anywhere, and at any time to call to annihilate Jews or any other religious or ethnic group. Imam Shahin's rhetoric was nothing short of a call for genocide.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Brad Sherman, CPA, senior member of the Financial Services Committee, and former Chair of the nation's second largest tax agency introduced the Tax Filing Simplification Act of 2017 with Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA), Grace Napolitano (D-NY), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Tim Ryan (D-OH), and Tom Suozzi (D-NY). The bill is based on legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

Washington, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman released the following statement following the announcement by the California's Department of Conservation that SoCalGas can resume injections of natural gas into the Aliso Canyon Storage Facility:

SoCalGas is going to begin injecting additional natural gas into the Aliso Canyon storage facility, the site of the world's largest methane leak.

"They refuse to commit to subsurface safety valves. Not now. Not later.

Washington, D.C. – The House Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2018 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill that includes $2 million in funding for the U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperative Agreement and $4 million in funding for the development of the U.S.-Israel Energy Center.