Brad Sherman

The sanctions we have now are clearly insufficient, but they are stronger than the ones we had 3 years ago.

Since the late 1990s, I have been calling for the toughest sanctions on Iran.

A new airship technology has the potential to carry perhaps hundreds of tons of material and personnel anywhere on the globe.

I am here in support of inclusion of report language requested by Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.

I want to join Mr. Rohrabacher in his call for better relations between the United States and Moscow.

What right to work, or what I call right to work for less will mean in terms of the wages and working conditions of those who work on these projects?

What we really need are good jobs at good wages.

If we want both vehicles and low-income consumers to get cheap natural gas, we are going to have to keep natural gas cheap.

While the economic theory is that free trade works perfectly, and will enhance everybody, no one has been able to explain why we have a $600 billion trade deficit.

I commend you for holding these hearings.

I think you ought to increase that instead.

I want to associate myself with your concerns.

One thing that disturbs me with our aid with regard to Syria, but also other places, is that we are deliberately obscuring the fact that the aid comes from the United States.

It is said often by the proponents of foreign aid that it is the most poor and dispossessed that become terrorists and wage war against us.

Our development aid is the right thing to do and that is reason enough for us to pay for it.

It illustrates why we need some differential in the conforming loan limit between high-cost areas and areas where homes sell for different prices.

Not every country can be a visa waiver country, but Israel meets the numerical test better than Hungary, Lithuania, and Latvia.

We have 37 partners who are visa waiver countries. Some 74 Members of this House have cosponsored the bill I introduced with Congressman Poe.

There is probably no more important country than Pakistan and nothing more important than our public outreach to the Pakistani people.

Everyone in the world is convinced that China is generally angry with North Korea, but North Korea and China and especially their Communist parties have been cooperating for a long time.

It has decided to subsidize North Korea, and as long as it is clear that will have free access to the U.S. trading system, which it abuses constantly, it is unlikely to change its behavior.

One comment is China has decided on its behavior based upon how it sees the world.

We are dealing with three evil countries or at least evil governments, but they are at very different stages.

Last month I joined the chairwoman in reintroducing the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation and Modernization Act.

In 2007, Israel destroyed a nuclear facility in Syria that had been built not only with help from North Korea, but help from Iran as well.