Howard Berman: “I will not repeat many of the comments of my colleagues talking about specific aspects of Doug's really quite incredible…”

“I will not repeat many of the comments of my colleagues talking about specific aspects of Doug's really quite incredible Congressional career. We all in this body have good days and bad days, and one of the really bad days for me was awakening to learn that, I think I was in California then, that Congressman Bereuter of Nebraska had decided to retire at the end of this term, that somebody as essential to the work that I was interested in, particularly in international relations, who conducted himself in such a professional and thoughtful way, whose approach to every issue, sort of he had his philosophy and he had his values, but essentially it was a very meticulous, merit-based analysis of issues and what made the most sense, and he constantly stood firm and steadfast for the conclusions he had reached through that kind of an analysis.”