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While partisan rancor has prevented Congress from passing important national legislation, I have worked hard to fight for issues of concern to Valley residents. I would like to update you on just a few of my most recent priorities which include improving Valley transportation, preserving our local environment, maintaining Valley home prices, and protecting consumer privacy.
Congressman, Brad Sherman, speaks at the VICA Congressional Luncheon while VICA chairman Coby King, listens. The event was held at the Hilton Universal Hotel on April 23, 2014. (Photo by Dean Musgrove/Los Angeles Daily News)
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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) made the following statement after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address:
“The President reiterated the positions he has had and expressed over the last few years. There were no major surprises.
“The President put forward a strong economic program that includes immigration reform, raising the minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits, pre-kindergarten education, vocational education, higher education, infrastructure investments, tax reform, and low-carbon energy.
Washington, DC – Congressman Brad Sherman, the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on trade, released the following statement today on the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014, legislation introduced on January 9th, 2014, by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Baucus and Ranking Member Hatch as well as House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Camp:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Rep. Brad Sherman (CA-30) announced he will vote in favor of the House amendment to H.J. Res. 59, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. Sherman’s statement on the legislation is below:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reintroduced the “Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act,” in the House and Senate respectively. Under the legislation, any institution that is too big to fail will be broken up and reorganized to avoid more government bailouts and future risk to the economy.
CANOGA PARK, CA – Today, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks), a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, received the “Friend of Affordable Housing Award” from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco for his long-standing support of affordable housing and preserving and increasing homeownership opportunities in the San Fernando Valley. Sherman also helped announce the recipients of the Affordable Housing Program (AHP) funding competition.