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House Pakistan Aid Bill Introduced

By | 09.24.09 | 5:43 pm

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

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Senate Passes Big Pakistan Aid Bill

By | 09.24.09 | 3:49 pm

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…

Howard Berman vs. Sarah Palin

By | 09.24.09 | 3:20 pm

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

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House Foreign Affairs Chairman: It Was a Coup in Honduras

By | 09.03.09 | 9:21 am

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,

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Three Things Pakistanis Hate: al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the United States

By | 08.17.09 | 7:59 am

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…

Gibbs Welcomes House Iran Resolution

By | 06.19.09 | 3:04 pm

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…

Iranian Human Rights Activist Not Exactly Against Congressional Resolution, But …

By | 06.19.09 | 11:10 am

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…

Republicans Nudge Democrats Over Iran Resolution

By | 06.19.09 | 10:53 am

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…

Berman on House Floor; Obama Helped on Resolution

By | 06.19.09 | 10:48 am

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…

House Debating Mike Pence’s Iran Resolution

By | 06.19.09 | 10:27 am

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…