Brad Sherman

I do want to point out that many of our allies are providing a much higher percentage of their GDP to aid, development aid for Africa and disaster aid to Africa and health aid Africa than we are.

I was in Steny Hoyer's office yesterday urging that the Democrats embrace this part of the Senate proposal.

We are spending trillions to deal with COVID. I would think it would make sense for us to spend 1 percent of that on our worldwide response.

The Administration seems hell-bent on cutting this aid at a time of pandemic which is taking lives around the world.

This cutback is going to increase the influence of our geopolitical rival.

I think the Chairman and the Ranking Member were eloquent as to why we need to expand what we spend to help the developing world.

We should be providing sick leave so people can stay home if they are sick, or if their kids are sick.

We need to do more research on COVID. About a quarter of 1 percent of the money we have provided for this crisis has gone to medical research.

I am hoping that Senators realize that now is the time to impose some real sanctions on Russia for all of its behaviors, and beginning with this bounty.

So, we know that Americans have died as a result of Russia providing those weapons.

The loudest testimony is being given by the witness who did not show up. Secretary Pompeo was invited and strongly urged to come before us, and his refusal to do so shouts loudly that the process for decisionmaking on foreign policy and…

I want to put in a strong pitch for the $5 billion in the HEROES Act for doing the research necessary to ameliorate this disease.

I would point out that political activists from China dedicated to freedom have had a major and positive impact on the world.

Thank you for your decades of fighting for human rights, particularly for the people of China.

A lot of foreign policy is playing to the domestic crowd.

I think small businesses are perhaps even more important to our economy than the Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) that already enjoy a rule that includes them.

If you mail it to me, I will lose it. If you email it to me, then... I can look at it on my iPad.

You can't mandate inclusion in indexes, but you can create a rule that you know will have a certain effect on inclusion in indexes.

I remain concerned about the inclusion of business development companies (BDCs) in the SEC's Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses (AFFE) rule.

Providing those populations swear loyalty to Assad?

The proper image of the government in Tehran is not the dapper Foreign Minister Zarif but is rather Alan Kurdi.

Will you commit that they will be lobbying, starting tomorrow, for Carolyn Maloney's Overdraft Protection Act?

You are too-big-to-fail. You have injured the economy by the practices that we are here to discuss in this committee.

These disclosures arose because of the work of our Chair, Maxine Waters, the Chair of the subcommittee, Al Green, and the Democratic staff.

We can't allow the outrages of the past to blind us to the crisis of the present.