Howard Berman

I wonder if the majority ever steps back for a second and looks at the situation that they are in. They run around asking the Committee on the Judiciary in the House to pass legislation stripping Federal courts of jurisdiction, including…

I think I just heard the Supreme Court of the United States analogized to the politburo of the Soviet Union, but I am not sure. The Hostettler fix was tried before. It has never happened, but it was tried before and here is what Attorney…

very, very reluctantly I rise in opposition to the amendment of my good friend and, more importantly, our wise and respected colleague, the ranking member of the Committee on International Relations (Mr. Lantos). He and I are hardly ever…

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…

Iran has repeatedly denied that it is trying to develop nuclear weapons. But it is increasingly difficult to conceive of any other plausible explanation for its efforts to enrich uranium and develop other nuclear-related capabilities. And…

I am not going to detail all the different provisions contained in this bill. There are many and they are important. They deal with a problem in the past of setting rates retroactively and how under these reforms rates will be set…

I take the gentlewoman's point about U.S. companies and who might be called a U.S. company. I simply wanted to point out that the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary has a manager's amendment that will not simply limit this to U.S…

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 1561 is a wonderful illustration of the principle that something does not have to be interesting to be important. This bill is of critical importance to the health of our information economy. Intangible property, such as…

I simply want to express my strong support for this amendment. If I were a betting man, I would have bet a lot of money that the chairman would not have been able to deal with the end of diversion in the fashion that he was able to without…

Reclaiming my time, I not only have a right, but I have a duty to try and protect the jurisdiction that I represent in this body from a Draconian, harsh, unjustified amendment which seeks to cut off all funding. If the gentleman wants to…

Policies are initiated not about philosophical positions on the question of how to deal with undocumented people in this country or illegal immigrants in this country. The question is how best for law enforcement to serve their local…

I strongly urge the body to vote no. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. In recent weeks we have held a number of hearings on the issue of identity cards issued by foreign states to their nationals in the United…

The beauty of the Millennium Challenge Account is that it is not about neighbors and it is not about friends and it is not about how much you voted with us in the U.N. and it is not what your position was on Iraq. It is about helping…

I will fight terrorism as if there were no negotiations. I will negotiate as if there was no terrorism. While he will never admit it, Prime Minister Sharon in the last 3 weeks has moved to that position. Notwithstanding 17 Israelis killed…

I just wanted to draw the attention of the body to the fact that what you are being told is not true. This is not an effort to take the California law as passed in 1975, known as MICRA, and to pass it and federalize it and to have it apply…

I support this measure to give Federal Judges a cost-of-living adjustment. Just today, the Washington Post reported the findings of a non-partisan National Commission on the Public Service, led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A…

I was a fervent opponent of the Vietnam War and a strong supporter of sensible detente with the Soviet Union. But under today's circumstances, the best way to give peace a chance and to save the most lives, American and Iraqi, is for…

I simply want to address a few of the comments of my friends and colleagues who have spoken before me. The gentleman from Massachusetts and others, the gentleman from Ohio, argue that this is a resolution authorizing the unilateral use of…

I reject the notion that this is under the legal doctrine of preemptive war. We are dealing with a country, Iraq, under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, that has violated resolution after resolution adopted by the Security Council of the…

I remember the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. This is not the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. At that particular time, based on an incident on the high seas, Congress quickly and without much discussion authorized a response that hardly anyone in…

I indicated that this was a broad, but not unlimited, delegation of authority to use force for a specific purpose, the elimination of the weapons of mass destruction and the need to eliminate them and the supporting and harboring of…

Section 4 of this bill requires that agents directed by the copyright office to distribute webcasting royalties must make direct payment of those royalties to featured and nonfeatured recording artists and musicians. Section 4 also allows…

Patsy Mink was a wonderful person with a compassionate heart and a warm and loving spirit. She was tireless and forceful in her advocacy for civil rights, for justice, for the environment, and for adequate health care and education for the…

I've heard many arguments against H.R. 4600, but there is one that I've not heard mentioned yet today. I suspect that the drafters did not intend the bill to have this effect, but as drafted the HEALTH Act endangers the effectiveness of…

Three points: first, the logic of the amendment from the gentleman from Florida is simple. Consular employees, State Department consular employees have granted visas to bad people. They have made mistakes. Therefore, eliminate them…