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[Washington, DC] – Congressman Brad Sherman led a bipartisan group of nine lawmakers in writing to the General Counsel of the Federal Housing Finance Authority (FHFA), Alfred Pollard, in support of the FHFA’s draft regulation to restrict private transfer fee covenants.
Washington, DC -- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan reported to Congressman Brad Sherman about the progress that the Department of Education is making on the issue of whether Title VI of the Civil Rights Act protects Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campus.
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.
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August 14th marked the 75th anniversary of Social Security and now is an appropriate time to celebrate the program that has helped so many Americans. It is also a time to assess the long-term viability of a program that in recent years has been under attack, and to reaffirm my pledge to protect it.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) recently sent a letter urging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator (USAID) Rajiv Shah to ensure that U.S. relief and recovery assistance for the 2010 Pakistan floods reaches all those in need.
That's good news. But the agency is going overboard
By Brad Sherman and Michael Conaway
The Wall Street Journal
August 26, 2010
The IRS is out to do something nice for us by ensuring we get quality help when we hire someone to prepare our tax returns. Unfortunately, parts of this laudable effort may be too much of a good thing. By going too far, too fast with more regulation than necessary, the IRS will add needless burden and expense. The agency's goals could be achieved more cheaply and efficiently without stretching its enforcement resources so thin.
SHERMAN OAKS, CA– Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) announced that the California Transportation Commission (CTC) voted to allocate funding for a project to help alleviate congestion at the 101/405 interchange. Congressman Sherman wrote to the CTC in support of the project to construct one additional lane for southbound and northbound off ramps at Van Nuys Boulevard on the 101 Freeway.
Washington, DC -- Congressman Sherman issued the following statement about Republican demands that Congress not reconvene in November and December: