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Brad Sherman

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Brad Sherman is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 30th congressional district since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Sherman has focused on various issues including financial regulation, foreign policy, and technology. He has been an advocate for consumer protection and has worked on legislation related to economic stability and national security. Throughout his tenure, he has participated in numerous congressional committees and has been involved in significant legislative efforts.

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Jul 28, 2015

The more women are given a chance to expand their horizons, the richer, the more advanced the society becomes.

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Jul 27, 2015

You are not going to be able to persuade them to change just by charm.

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Jul 27, 2015

This is not a binding deal. This is not a treaty. This is not binding on Iran.

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Jul 27, 2015

Bernie Sanders is, I believe, the only person on that bill in the Senate.

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Jul 27, 2015

Maybe we will pick up some more if any of my colleagues are listening to this.

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Jul 27, 2015

We still have too-big-to-fail. The reason for that is the regulators under Dodd-Frank were given the authority but were not required to break up those that are too-big-to-fail.

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Jul 27, 2015

The harm to our prosperity done by our current trade policy swamps any benefit that Dodd-Frank was intended to provide.

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Jul 27, 2015

Unless we hold China responsible for what North Korea does, given the fact that the existence of the North Korean regime is dependent entirely on China, or substantially on China, we are going to have to worry an awful lot about what North…

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Jul 27, 2015

This new deal with Iran is more intrusive than prior deals.

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Jul 27, 2015

I have been at this for a long time, and we know that Presidents, though, don't always enforce statutes against Iran.

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Jul 27, 2015

The one thing everybody that has come to this room seems to agree on is that sanctions can change Iran's behavior.

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Jul 27, 2015

Deal or no deal, we need to adopt additional sanctions.

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Jul 22, 2015

The President may not have boxed in Iran and blocked every avenue they have to a nuclear weapon, but he has boxed in Congress

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Jul 22, 2015

The good is we get rid of--the good is we get the stockpiles, decommission the centrifuges. The bad is they get their $100 billion.

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Jul 22, 2015

If you take a huge risk by buying a 30-year bond when you are borrowing your money for 30 days, the regulators come in and kiss you on both cheeks.

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Jul 22, 2015

I assure you that if I could have picked the person to grade my tests in law school, I would have done better.

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Jul 22, 2015

The best approach to end 'too-big-to-fail' is to end 'too-big-to-fail.'

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Jul 21, 2015

I would like to know how much money they have on deposit, and then what are the obligations that the host bank or the host country is going to extract from that.

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Jul 21, 2015

If I can just sneak in one comment. We were just in a classified briefing and a nonclassified non-answer was, I asked the Administration whether they would follow the law, and under those circumstances, punish those banks, and the answer…

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Jul 21, 2015

One of the reasons not to vote to disapprove is because we will probably fail to override.

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Jul 21, 2015

The deal is an executive agreement, which is below an executive legislative agreement, which is below a real treaty.

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Jul 21, 2015

We have to decide how to vote. We have three possible votes coming up.

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Jul 21, 2015

The ugly is next decade when they could have such an enormous nuclear program that in the words of the President, their breakout time would be basically zero.

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Jul 21, 2015

This deal has the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good and the bad happened the first year.

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Jul 14, 2015

When you save hundreds of billions of dollars by keeping legal restrictions it is hard to loosen legal restrictions.

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