Representative Ami Bera (D-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, today chaired a Subcommittee hearing on the Biden Administration's proposed FY2023 budget for State Department and USAID programs in the Indo-Pacific."Our robust economic, security, and people-to-people ties with the Indo-Pacific cannot be… Read more »
Today, Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-07), Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), and Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), introduced the Affordability is Access Act (AAA) to ensure that people across the country can access and afford over-the-counter birth control options and plan their own reproductive lives, on their own terms. Read more »
Today, Representatives David N. Cicilline (D-RI), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Dean Phillips (D-MN), and Peter Meijer (R-MI) announced the reconstitution of the House Diplomacy Caucus. This body is committed to strengthening American diplomacy as America's foreign policy tool of first resort, strengthening alliances, and exploring concrete ways to… Read more »
Today, Representatives Ami Bera (CA-07) and Andy Levin (MI-09), Chair and Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in China:"Thirty-three years ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began a systematic… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, and Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the official launch of the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity. Read more »
Representative Ami Bera (D-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, today chaired a Subcommittee hearing on the implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine for U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific."Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine has been a stark reminder of the threats that one man's unchecked ambitions and ego can… Read more »
Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-07) today voted for two urgent pieces of legislation to address the current infant formula shortage in the United States, H.R. 7790, Supplemental Funding Legislation to Address Infant Formula Shortage and H.R.7791, Access to Baby Formula Act.Today's vote follows a May 17 letter that Congressman Bera joined more than 140 of his colleagues in urging… Read more »
Today, Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, and Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations, and Global… Read more »
Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) released the following statement after being invited by President Joe Biden to participate in a Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Korea to attend the inauguration of President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol."It is an honor to be invited by President Joe Biden to travel to South Korea to attend the inauguration of President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol," said… Read more »
Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, released the following statement on the announcement of the upcoming U.S.-ASEAN Special Summit:"As someone deeply invested in the U.S. relationship with Southeast Asia, I am glad President Biden will host leaders of the Association of… Read more »
