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Sherman Oaks - On Tuesday, April 21, 2015, Congressman Brad Sherman will be holding a Telephone Town Hall meeting from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

Washington, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) led a bipartisan group of 106 House members in a request of $2 million for the U.S.–Israel Energy Cooperation Program in the Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill. Co-leaders of the letter include Congressmen Bill Johnson (R-OH), Peter King (R-NY), Peter Roskam (R-IL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Ted Deutch (D-FL).

The appropriations request this year included the highest number of signatories – 106 members of Congress – since the creation of the program in 2008.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a bipartisan letter to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo urging him to increase efforts to combat foreign terrorist organizations who are using the American social media company to fundraise, spread their propaganda and recruit new jihadists.

WASHINGTON, DC – With another government shutdown looming in Washington, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) pledged to refuse any pay so long as the Department of Homeland Security is also shut down. If a funding bill is not agreed upon by February 27^th, the Department will run out of funding and "essential" personnel will have to go to work while not receiving their paychecks. They won't be paid until Congress appropriates funds.

Washington DC - Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding President Obama's proposal for the authorized use of military force.

"I applaud the President for coming to Congress for authorization for the continuing operations against ISIS. However, I oppose the draft he has put forward. First, the limitation on ground troops is not strong enough – ‘enduring offensive ground operations' is a highly elastic phrase which the next president may interpret broadly.

Washington DC - Today, it was reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is near a settlement agreement that would require Standard and Poor's to pay $1.37 billion in fines for deceptively rating mortgage back securities. This now puts real pressure on the Securities and Exchange Commission to implement the Franken-Sherman amendment, which was passed as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill nearly five years ago.

Washington DC – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), the second ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, announced new Subcommittee roles for the 114th Congress. In the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Sherman will serve as the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Asia, and will continue to serve on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, as the Chairman Emeritus (former Chairman).