Howard Berman

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• So Where Does That Pakistan Aid Go, Exactly?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  With Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, publicly floating the idea of increasing aid to Pakistan on top of the $7.5 billion five-year aid bill passed this year, it’s worth asking how the current aid gets doled out. And for an answer we turn ...
  2 days ago

• Iran sanctions bill clears House, possible delay in Senate

  
  JW Political Insider — Authority: 464
  Jewish groups are lauding yesterday’s House passage of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, which will impose economic penalties on companies that help Iran get the refined products it can’t produce itself. But the House vote was never really in doubt; for months, the only question was when Foreign Affairs ...
  3 days ago

• Obama Putting Brakes on Senate Iran Sanctions Bill

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  Now that Rep. Howard Berman’s (D-Calif.) bill authorizing new energy-sector sanctions on Iran has passed the House, the Obama administration is looking to the Senate to cool things down. The Obama administration “didn’t tell me to go ahead, but they also didn’t tell me not to go ahead,” Berman told ...
  4 days ago

• Holbrooke Calls for More Aid to Pakistan

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  Amb. Richard Holbooke speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday. (c-span.org) Congress may have appropriated the first installment of a $7.5 billion aid package for Pakistan, but Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, urged an even greater ...
  4 days ago

• Berman Sanctions Bill Overwhelmingly Passes the House

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  A bill sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, to authorize new energy-sector sanctions on Iran overwhelmingly passed the House just now. The vote: 412 members in favor to only 12 opposed, with four voting “present.” Berman’s bill had strong but not ...
  4 days ago

• Berman Iran Sanctions Bill Up for House Vote

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  The Iran petroleum-sanctions bill authored by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif) is scheduled for debate in the House imminently. That bill, if it passes, wouldn’t require sanctions on Iran; but  it would allow President Obama additional authorities for new sanctions. Both the Obama administration and Berman himself ...
  5 days ago

• Pro-Israel Lobby Group’s Iran Petition Features Lots of Questionable Names

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  Earlier today, the Israel Project — a pro-Israel organization that endorses tough measures against Iran’s nuclear program — sent out a release announcing substantial support for placing sanctions on Iran. A petition issued by the Israel Project to be sent to “every ambassador to the U.S., all UN member ...
  1 week ago

• The Final McChrystal/Eikenberry Hearing Gets Underway

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  For their last appearance in the three-day gauntlet of congressional hearings, Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry reunited today before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the committee’s chairman, said that U.S. efforts in Afghanistan “cannot stop at the ...
  1 week ago

• Secretary Clinton Responds to Congressional Concern about Uganda; Text Message Her to Show Your Support

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 152
  In a written response to an October 30 letter from Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, Congressman Howard Berman, Congressman Gary Ackerman and Congresswoman Illeana Ros-Lehtinen, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that she shares Capitol Hill’s concerns that Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill would “create fear, ...
  1 week ago

• Why Is J Street Backing Rep. Berman’s Iran Sanctions Bill?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  Earlier today, progressive groups (and some conservatives ) were surprised to see the pro-peace/pro-Israel/pro-Palestine American Jewish organization J Street come out in favor of a bill sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) granting the Obama administration additional powers to place gasoline sanctions on Iran ...
  1 week ago

• The Goldilocks Strategy

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 689
  WASHINGTON--President Obama has bought himself some time on Afghanistan and lived up to his promise to seek policies that fit into no ones philosophical pigeonholes. He has also split his own party, diminished the enthusiasm of his natural allies, yet earned himself no lasting credit with his domestic adversaries. By ...
  2 weeks ago

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