The House of Representatives voted today in a strong bipartisan manner to pass the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA, which provides the annual budget for the Department of Defense (DOD), included key provisions authored by Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and… Read more »
The House of Representatives today passed Rep. Ami Bera's (D-CA) Securing America From Epidemics (SAFE) Act. The SAFE Act would authorize United States participation in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a public-private partnership developing vaccines for coronavirus and other highly infectious pathogens."Defeating the COVID-19 virus will be a monumental task and… Read more »
The House of Representatives voted today to pass Rep. Ami Bera's (D-CA) resolution recognizing the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War and the strong alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea."Seventy years after the start of the Korean War, the alliance between the United States and South Korea remains unbreakable, even during a period of rapid geopolitical… Read more »
The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation and the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities today held a joint hearing on biosecurity and emerging biological threats."The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerabilities our communities face to biological events while also challenging our traditional… Read more »
The House Foreign Affairs Committee today unanimously voted in committee markup to pass Rep. Ami Bera's (D-CA) resolution recognizing the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War and the enduring alliance between the United States and the Republic of Korea."Seventy years after the start of the Korean War, the alliance between the United States and South Korea has transformed… Read more »
Congressman Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation today chaired a subcommittee hearing on democracy and human rights in Asia."Human rights and democratic governance are core to American foreign policy in Asia, leading to more stability and prosperity for people and nations," said Chairman Bera. "But in 2020,… Read more »
Congressman Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) released the following statement on today's announcement of an agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates"I welcome today's announcement of an agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations, including Israel's commitment to suspending annexation. This is a promising step towards stability and peace in the Middle… Read more »
Congressman Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation released the following statement on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing."Seventy-five years ago, the world witnessed the unimaginable consequences inflicted from the use of a single atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Despite the hundreds of thousands who… Read more »
Congressman Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation, today chaired a subcommittee hearing on the Rohingya crisis."While no longer in the media spotlight, the Rohingya people continue to endure a systematic campaign of persecution, forced disappearance, rape, and murder. Congress must continue to shine a spotlight… Read more »
Congressman Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) today hailed the passage of the Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Act out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The bill, written by the late Congressman John Lewis and cosponsored by Congressman Bera, would establish an exchange initiative between the United States and India to study the work and legacies of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther… Read more »
