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When doctors take a pledge to do no harm, it means we have an obligation to not knowingly hurt people who come to us for help. It also means we have a duty to talk with our patients about their options and to make sure they're fully informed partners in their own care. That's why, as both a doctor and a member of the U.S. Congress, I'm so deeply disturbed by a 38-year-old American policy known as the global gag rule.

By: Ami Bera, Gregory Poling

The Philippine presidential campaign season is underway. It will be a heated, messy, and imperfect process — as is often the case with democracy. But no matter who wins, the United States and the new Philippine administration should look to strengthen economic, security, and diplomatic ties. Maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific depends on us doing so.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has announced a new bill that would establish an interagency task force to craft a response to China's use of economic measures to further its geopolitical goals.

Why it matters: The draft bill represents growing awareness in the U.S. that economic coercion is a cornerstone of the Chinese Communist Party's ability to project authoritarianism beyond its borders.

By: Representative Ami Bera and Wendy Cutler

If there is one major tenet that sets apart the foreign policy approaches of U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, it is this: Abandoning American leadership in the international community cedes the power to set international norms, rules, and values to other nations.

Following news of the Taliban takeover, Rep. Ami Bera, D-Elk Grove, began working to help more than 7,000 Afghan refugees get out of the country by forwarding requests to the State Department from Americans, Afghans and loved ones with family members who are unsafe in Afghanistan.

Bera joined Sonseeahray on FOX40 News at 11 a.m. to talk about the latest developments.

CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. (KTXL) — With Folsom Lake looking more like a pond, and no way of knowing if the next rainy season will deliver, local water agencies are finding they have to dig deep.

"Water increasingly is a precious commodity as we live through this drought right now," explained Congressman Ami Bera, D-Elk Grove.

Bera met with managers of the Citrus Heights Water District Monday at the site of a well that taps into an aquifer 400 feet underground.

Elk Grove Congressman Ami Bera is urgently calling on the FDA to grant full approval of COVID-19 vaccines now being used under "emergency use" authorizations.

A congressman who represents Elk Grove returned to the area Tuesday afternoon for a walking tour of one of the city's priority projects: improvements to historic Old Town.