That didn’t take long. On the heels of the Senate passing a $7.5 billion Pakistan aid bill, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) introduces his counterpart legislation. From a Berman statement:
“After many weeks of discussion and negotiation, this step now clears the way for U.S. efforts to help create a
After months of negotiations over the summer between the House, the Senate and the Obama administration, the Senate has passed a bill to triple non-military aid to Pakistan. The bill, upping civilian foreign aid to the Pakistanis to $7.5 billion over five years, was hailed by its Senate authors, John More…
Sarah Palin reared her head in Hong Kong to give the the first foreign-policy speech of the Palin 2012 campaign, and Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has this to say about it:
“In remarks before business leaders in Hong Kong, former
Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), writing in the Los Angeles Times, is tired of euphemistic language about the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya:
This one looks, walks and quacks like a duck. It’s time to stop hedging and call this bird what it is. And if, for whatever reason,
I suppose the headline from the new Pakistani public opinion poll is They Really Hate The Taliban, but that’s cold comfort. There has been a consensus in Pakistan against the Taliban since the Taliban conquered the Swat valley, and The Washington Post reports that, accordingly, “about two-thirds” of Pakistanis More…
Given that the Obama administration worked last night with House Democrats to soften the language of Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) Iran resolution — which passed by a 405-1 margin today — it should come as no surprise that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just now told reporters, “we More…
Hadi Ghaemi of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said he has a hard time taking a strong stance one way or the other about the Berman-Pence Iran resolution currently being debated on the House floor. But it’s wading awfully close into a “political act” for More…
There’s some static between Democratic and Republican members of Congress in favor of the Iran Resolution. After Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) used her time to talk about Iran’s nuclear program, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) gently shifted the focus back to “the people of the Iran.” Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) very More…
To add to Weigel’s post a bit, I’m not sure Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) is really hedging his bets on the Iran resolution he signed onto with Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.). While he said that it’s “not for us to decide who runs Iran, or who the real More…
Right now, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) is speaking in favor of H.Res. 549, the resolution introduced by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and reworked by the Democratic chairman of the foreign relations committee to endorse the resistance in Iran.
Berman is sort of hedging his bets in More…
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