Howard Berman

The purpose of the Genocide Accountability Act is to ensure that no perpetrator of genocide is able to use the United States as a safe haven for prosecution. After the Holocaust, the Genocide Convention was the embodiment of the world's…

I sincerely hope that the council will live up to its charter and become an impartial and forceful proponent of human rights around the world. Unfortunately, some have argued that the council, by spending an inordinate amount of time…

That is a provision that I have supported, it is legislation I have introduced, it embodies and enacts a philosophy I completely agree with. All PTO fees should be kept within the PTO office to reduce backlogs, to hire qualified people…

I just want to repeat, a number of things they want, first-inventor-to-file, not first-to-file, first-inventor-to-file, repeal of the best-mode defense, reform of the inequitable-conduct defense, are in this bill, and we intend to work…

Under the entire market value rule, which is in this bill, the Wright brothers, every value of what was created was those surface controls.

I have letters from the AFL-CIO, the university community, and the major centers of innovation and research in this country that directly contradict his assertion that they are opposed to the passage of this bill.

first I have to say that we wouldn't be here, not only for his substantive contributions to this legislation, but because of his suggestions about the approach we should take, whether it was in full committee or as we move towards the…

even as a young child, Jack Valenti showed signs of great leadership and oratory skills. He was a debate champion at his high school. Making good use of his natural ability to persuade and his interest in entertainment, Jack worked as a…

I certainly don't know that that is true, and I would be stunned if it were. I would be stunned if our dedicated employees in a very difficult foreign mission or in the military were out promising things they couldn't deliver. I don't…

But no part of Mr. Fortenberry's or my motivations for introducing the bill, and I wouldn't speculate on the Senate's motivations, but no part of our motivation was to take the administration out of an embarrassing place where they have…

I thank my chairman for helping to bring this bill and this issue to the floor twice now, and for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, last month, the House passed H.R. 580 to restore the checks and balances to the U.S. attorney appointment…

H.R. 580 does only one thing, it restores the checks and balances that, until last year, had long been part of the process for filling vacancies in U.S. Attorneys' offices. The whole goal of this bill is to restore the status quo ante…

I would say three words characterize the service of Leo McCarthy in all aspects of his public career and, I think, of his personal life: probity, energy, and a tremendous level of integrity. This was a very unusual public servant. He cared…

I rise in support of H.R. 34 and ask my colleagues to join me in voting to pass this legislation. Last Congress, an identical bill passed unanimously through the Judiciary Committee and then passed by voice vote on suspension on the House…

I'd like to commend Chairman Hyde, Ranking Member Lantos and their excellent staffs for their hard work on his legislation. I'd like to offer special thanks for their efforts to ensure that the conference agreement retains a provision I…

We are looking at weeks, not months. I want to reemphasize the point that the chairman made, that we will go where the evidence takes us.

I will be very brief. There is only one response to my friend the chairman. If the issue is about papers and the only reason we haven't gone to conference committee is because the papers haven't been delivered, I do have Senator Frist's…

Well, I do. But it wasn't because we gave Libya civilian nuclear cooperation. But I wouldn't compare India and Libya. They are very different countries. And the gain for Libya was a great gain for nonproliferation, I agree. But now we are…

Reclaiming my time. If you had stripped away the right of the U.S. Supreme Court, of the Federal courts to decide whether segregated schools, whether the doctrine of separate and equal should stand or whether it violated the 14th amendment…

imagine for a moment that there was a gang, an organization of Mexican nationals who believed zealously and fanatically that the Southwest of the United States had been stolen from them; and that this group of people committed to murdering…

The first amendment was to protect the exercise of religion, even if the majority didn't like that religion.

reclaiming my time. Because under this bill, they can decide to violate that Supreme Court decision, and the West Virginia Supreme Court, now the final arbiter of it, says, we did not like that decision in the first place, and now the…

Perhaps the place to start at this hearing is not the question of whether patent trolls are fact or fiction, but rather the definitional question of what is a patent troll.

several years ago we discovered that Iran was operating a secret program to enrich uranium and carry out other sensitive nuclear fuel cycle activities. Iran's failure to report these activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency was…

several years ago, we learned that Iran was operating a secret program to enrich uranium and carry out other sensitive nuclear fuel cycle activities. Iran's failure to report these activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency was a…