Press Releases

Today, Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific, sounded the alarm on proposed Republican funding cuts to the State Department and USAID during a FY2024 budget hearing on July 18.

During the hearing, Ranking Member Bera stated:

Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) and María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), co-chairs of the House Tuberculosis Elimination Caucus, and Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee today led 104 colleagues in a bipartisan letter to the Biden Administration urging bold U.S. leadership at the upcoming United Nations High Level Meeting (HLM) on tuberculosis.

In the letter, the Members wrote:

Today, Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) released the following statement on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approving the first-ever over-the-counter birth control pill available in the United States.

Today, Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) introduced the Legacies of War Recognition and Unexploded Ordnance Removal Act, bipartisan legislation aimed at providing critical support for the clearance of landmines and other explosive remnants of war in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

U.S. Representative Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06) today announced that his office has now surpassed $16 million in casework dollars successfully returned to constituents in Sacramento County.

Since taking office in 2013, Bera’s office has resolved more than 26,000 cases for constituents and returned over $16.2 million dollars. These casework dollars are secured by helping retrieve constituents’ backlogged veteran’s benefits, stalled tax refunds, Social Security and Medicare issues, and more.

Today, Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (CA-06), Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Mike Kelly (PA-16), and Larry Bucshon, M.D. (IN-08), and Senators John Thune (R-SD), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to quickly finalize a set of proposed rules that would deliver quality care to seniors on Medicare faster by modernizing and streamlining prior authorization processes.

U.S. Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA), Ed Case (D-HI), Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS), Jill N. Tokuda (D-HI), and Steve Womack (R-AR) today introduced the Care for Compact of Free Association (COFA) Veterans Act, bipartisan legislation that authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide medical care to U.S. veterans living in the freely associated states (FAS) of the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Currently, the VA is not legally permitted to provide direct care to U.S.