Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) and Steve Chabot (R-OH), Chair and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, yesterday introduced the Indo-Pacific Engagement Act, bipartisan legislation to strengthen United States diplomatic and aid presence in the Indo-Pacific.
Despite the fact that the Indo-Pacific… Read more »
Democratic and Republican lawmakers will next week introduce legislation to spur the White House to funnel more money to the Indo-Pacific region to help counter China.Ami Bera, the Democratic chair of the House foreign affairs Asia subcommittee, and Steve Chabot, the top Republican on the panel, hope their Indo-Pacific Engagement Act will narrow the gap between the rhetoric about Asia… Read more »
Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) released the following statement on the U.S. Department of State announcing the launch of the Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative. The program, championed by the late Representative John Lewis, brings together young leaders from India and the United States to advance social justice and civil rights by exploring the life and legacies of Mahatma… 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 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, 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 »
The author is a member of U.S. House of Representatives who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, and co-chair of the Congressional Korea Caucus and the Congressional Study Group on Korea.I recently had the honor to attend the inauguration of President Yoon Suk-yeol as part of the U.S. presidential delegation, led by Second… 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 »
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 »
