ENG:Howard Lawrence Berman (born April 15, 1941) is a former U.S. Representative, last serving California's 28th congressional district, serving in Congress from 1983 to 2013. The district, numbered as the 26th District from 1983 to 2003, included about half of the San Fernando Valley. Berman is a Democrat.
Early life, education, and legal career
Berman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Eleanor (née Schapiro) and Joseph Berman. His maternal grandparents immigrated from Russia. Berman grew up in modest circumstances. He graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles) (1959), and earned his B.A. (1962, International Relations) and LL.B. (1965) at University of California, Los Angeles. Blanche Bettington, his high school civics teacher, inspired him to ...
Armenian National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Armen Rustamyan with U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA). , positive
Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman (D-CA), unveiled a foreign assistance reform bill. The aim of the bill is reform and shape the obsoleteForeign Assistance Act of 1961. Sarah Trister, advocacy officer at Freedom House, noted that,”in a political climate where savings and efficiency are keywords for both political parties, reforming the decades-old foreign assistance framework should be a top priority in Congress.”
Some of the key reforms include “a new comprehensive system for evaluating and monitoring the success of foreign assistance ...
US Representative Howard Berman (D-CA) says he strongly believes Washington must go ahead with arms sales to Taiwan in order to provide the island with the ability to defend itself.
Berman, who formerly headed the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, was speaking on Saturday at an event held by the US-based Formosa Foundation.
He said that according to the Pentagon's recent report on China's militray, the cross-strait military advantage is increasingly shifting in Beijing's favor. He said the United States must sell defensive arms to Taiwan to prevent a military imbalance.
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Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Valley Village), hearing a din of constituent complaints, introduced legislation Thursday targeting noise from low-flying helicopters above Los Angeles residential neighborhoods.
Berman’s Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act would require the Federal Aviation Administration to establish rules on flight paths and minimum altitudes for helicopter operations in Los Angeles County residential areas within a year of the bill being signed into law.
Exemptions would be allowed for emergency responders and the military.
“We’ve been getting ...