B000410 1941-04-15 5149 2221 Rayburn House Office Building http://www.house.gov/berman/contact/ 28 202-225-3196 Howard 'd':4 'ca':5 '-28':6 'rep':1 'berman':3,8,10 'howard':2,7,9 M 400025 Berman Howard_L._Berman L. Rep. Howard Berman [D, CA-28] 2242 N00008094 9609 Democrat 202-225-4695 Jewish CA Howard Berman 2.6875 http://www.house.gov/berman/ 400025 Person rep\. Mon Nov 23 10:21:32 -0600 2009 Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...too." Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, who this week drew the attention of President Barack Obama, wrote in an essay to Rep. Howard Berman, D-California, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, that lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba "cou 'd':32 'ban':45 'cou':51 'rep':28 'u.s':6,47 'cuba':4,50 'drew':16 'free':52 'hous':38 'lead':1 'lift':43 'open':3 'week':15 'cuban':9 'essay':26 'obama':22 'press':54 'wrote':23 'yoani':11 'affair':40 'attent':18 'barack':21 'berman':30 'dissid':2 'howard':29 'presid':20 'travel':48 'blogger':10 'foreign':39 'sanchez':12 'tourist':7 'chairman':35 'committe':41 'internet':53 'california':33 'd-california':31 6745284 true true daylife Free Internet Press http://freeinternetpress.com/ OK http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=23651 400025 Person rep\. Mon Nov 23 10:21:31 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...expressed concern with a bill that would allow all Americans to visit the island for the first time in 50 years. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also backs lifting the restriction. He said the ban had 'd':38 '50':6,32 'ban':56 'old':9 'rep':34 'also':48 'back':49 'bill':3,17 'cuba':10 'hill':59 'hous':44 'lift':5,50 'said':54 'time':30 'year':8,33 'allow':20 'calif':39 'first':29 'greet':2 'visit':24 'would':19 'affair':46 'berman':36 'howard':35 'island':26 'travel':11 'concern':14 'd-calif':37 'express':13 'foreign':45 'skeptic':1 'american':22 'chairman':41 'committe':47 'restrict':12,52 'year-old':7 6745283 true true daylife The Hill http://www.thehill.com/ OK http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/68769-skepticism-greets-bill-to-lift-50-year-old-cuba-travel-ban 400025 Person rep\. Thu Nov 19 21:30:29 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...American tourists from traveling to Cuba. "It is the only country in the world where our people are not allowed to go," said Rep. Howard Berman, D-California, at the start of a hearing on whether it is time to lift the travel ban. Every year, foreign tr 'd':34 'go':28 'tr':55 'ban':51 'cnn':56 'rep':30 'u.s':1 'cuba':3,12 'hear':41 'lift':48 'said':29 'time':46 'year':53 'allow':26 'everi':52 'peopl':23 'start':38 'world':20 'berman':32 'howard':31 'travel':10,50 'countri':17 'foreign':54 'practic':4 'softbal':5 'tourist':8 'whether':43 'american':7 'diplomaci':6 'california':35 'd-california':33 6737714 true true daylife CNN http://www.cnn.com/ OK http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_latest/~3/sTnEsCpTuGg/index.html 400025 Person congress Thu Nov 19 21:30:29 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009 WASHINGTON — A high-octane effort to let U.S. tourists visit Cuba got a major endorsement Thursday from one of the island's leading dissidents, who suggested that "along with suitcases, Bermuda shorts and sun block, support, solidarity and freedom 'got':21 'let':16 'one':27 'sun':43 'u.s':4,17 'urg':8 'cuba':2,20 'high':12 'lead':6,32 'open':1 'along':37 'block':44 'major':23 'miami':49 'octan':13 'short':41 'visit':19 'dissid':7,33 'effort':14 'endors':24 'herald':50 'island':30 'bermuda':40 'freedom':48 'solidar':46 'suggest':35 'suitcas':39 'support':45 'tourist':5,18 'thursday':25 'high-octan':11 'washington':9 6737715 true true daylife Miami Herald http://www.miamiherald.com/ OK http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1342642.html 400025 Person rep\. Thu Nov 19 10:20:38 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...as proponents of greater engagement with Cuba say they've got their best shot at success in years. The panel's chair, Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., has already endorsed lifting the ban, calling it a throwback to the ``chilliest periods of the Cold War.' 'd':35 've':18 'ban':3,42 'got':19 'rep':31 'say':16 'war':54 'best':21 'call':43 'cold':53 'cuba':1,15 'lift':40 'shot':22 'year':26 'calif':36 'chair':30 'engag':13 'miami':55 'panel':28 'berman':33 'endors':39 'herald':56 'howard':32 'period':50 'propon':10 'travel':2 'alreadi':38 'd-calif':34 'discuss':6 'greater':12 'success':24 'chilliest':49 'throwback':46 'washington':8 6735346 true true daylife Miami Herald http://www.miamiherald.com/ OK http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1341647.html 400025 Person rep\. Thu Nov 19 21:30:29 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...Affairs Committee said Thursday. "It is the only country in the world where our people are not allowed to go," said Rep. Howard Berman, D-California, at the start of a hearing on whether it is time to lift the travel ban. "Let's face it. By any objectiv 'd':35 'go':29 'ban':9,52 'cnn':60 'let':53 'rep':31 'u.s':1 'call':3 'cuba':7 'face':55 'hear':42 'lift':5,49 'said':12,30 'time':47 'allow':27 'peopl':24 'start':39 'world':21 'affair':10 'berman':33 'howard':32 'lawmak':2 'travel':8,51 'countri':18 'whether':44 'committe':11 'objectiv':59 'thursday':13 'california':36 'd-california':34 6737716 true true daylife CNN http://www.cnn.com/ OK http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_politicalticker/~3/7b0iOzv2jfY/ 400025 Person congress Wed Nov 18 10:20:25 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...Cuba. Let my people in! The heads of foreign affairs committees in both houses of Congress -- Sen. Richard Lugar and Rep. Howard Berman came out together to say the 50-year-old ban should be lifted. Hell, Lugar is even a Republican. After we lift the b 'b':61 '50':43 'ban':5,47 'let':15 'new':63 'old':46 'rep':34 'say':41 'sen':30 'came':37 'cuba':3,14 'diaz':13 'dump':1 'even':54 'head':20 'hell':51 'hous':27 'lift':50,59 'send':6 'time':64 'year':45 'lohan':11 'lugar':32,52 'manni':12 'miami':62 'peopl':17 'stern':9 'affair':23 'berman':36 'howard':8,35 'togeth':39 'travel':4 'foreign':22 'lindsey':10 'richard':31 'committe':24 'congress':29 'year-old':44 'republican':56 6725079 true true daylife Miami New Times http://www.miaminewtimes.com/ OK http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/11/dump_the_cuba_travel_ban_send.php 400025 Person rep\. Tue Nov 17 21:30:39 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...be imposed. Among those at the meeting (or at least taking part at some point) were House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas). Also present: Jennifer Bendall, executive director of the musicFIRST Co 'd':31 'r':38 'co':49 'rep':27,34 'also':40 'hill':5 'hous':22 'meet':12 'mike':35 'part':17 'take':16 'texa':39 'among':8 'calif':32 'hoyer':26 'impos':7 'least':15 'littl':1 'major':23 'point':20 'steni':25 'bendal':43 'berman':29 'execut':44 'howard':28 'jennif':42 'leader':24 'r-texa':37 'conaway':36 'd-calif':30 'harmoni':2 'present':41 'varieti':50 'director':45 'musicfirst':48 6719891 true true daylife Variety http://www.variety.com/ OK http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WilshireWashington/~3/JX8z8A0-8js/little-harmony-on-the-hill.html 400025 Person democrat Wed Nov 18 21:30:33 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...to lift the U.S. travel ban on Cuba. That would be "the best anti-Castro-policy," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman told Reuters. Americans visiting Cuba would be ambassadors of democratic values, thus undermining the Castro governm 'ban':15 'u.s':13 'anti':24 'best':22 'busi':51 'cuba':1,17,38 'hous':27 'lift':11 'like':7 'raul':3 'thus':45 'time':52 'told':34 'valu':44 'crush':5 'fidel':8 'visit':37 'would':19,39 'affair':29 'berman':33 'castro':4,25,48 'howard':32 'intern':50 'polici':26 'report':9 'reuter':35 'travel':14 'dissent':6 'foreign':28 'governm':49 'american':36 'chairman':31 'committe':30 'democrat':43 'undermin':46 'ambassador':41 'anti-castro-polici':23 6732172 true true daylife International Business Times http://www.ibtimes.com/ OK http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091118/cubas-raul-castro-crushes-dissent-like-fidel-report.htm 400025 Person rep\. Mon Nov 16 21:29:36 -0600 2009 Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...lift the ban" before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs at 10 a.m. Thursday, November 19. The Committee is chaired by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), who invited McCaffrey. Following his testimony, McCaffrey will be available to media. McCaffrey has trav 'd':56 '10':17,42 '19':21,46 'ca':57 'a.m':18,43 'ban':13,33 'gen':4 'nov':20 'rep':52 'ret':6 '2172':26 'cuba':15 'd-ca':55 'four':2 'hous':22,28,36 'lift':11,31 'star':3 'thur':19 'time':9 'trav':72 'avail':67 'build':30 'chair':50 'insid':74 'invit':59 'media':69 'offic':29 'affair':24,40 'berman':54 'follow':61 'howard':53 'novemb':45 'street':73 'travel':16 'foreign':23,39 'rayburn':27 'testifi':8 'committe':25,37,48 'thursday':44 'four-star':1 'mccaffrey':5,60,64,70 'testimoni':63 6714084 true true daylife Street Insider http://www.streetinsider.com/ OK http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Four-Star+Gen.+McCaffrey+%28Ret.%29+to+Testify%2C+%26quot%3BTime+to+Lift+the+Ban%26quot%3B+on+Cuba+Travel%2C+10+a.m.+Thurs.%2C+Nov.+19%2C+House+Foreign+Affairs+Committee%2C+2172+Rayburn+House+Office+Building/51 400025 Person democrat Mon Nov 23 10:21:18 -0600 2009 Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Rep. Howard Berman, a California Democrat, quoted an article by Hebrew University's Moshe Halbertal arguing that the report's "objective is to prepare a general indictment of Israel as a predatory state that is geared toward violating ... '35':4 'rep':7 'argu':22 'bibl':49 'gear':42 'make':6 'mosh':20 'news':46 'quot':13 'year':5 'state':39 'articl':15 'berman':9 'differ':3 'hebrew':17 'howard':8 'indict':33 'israel':35 'object':27 'prepar':30 'report':25 'toward':43 'violat':44 'general':32 'halbert':21 'univers':18 'democrat':12 'propheci':50 'christian':45 'jerusalem':48 'predatori':38 'california':11 6745268 false true google blog Christian News from Jerusalem | Bible Prophecy... http://www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com/israelnews/component/content/frontpage.html OK http://www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com/israelnews/editorial/38-editors-choice/2134-what-a-difference-35-years-make.html 400025 Person rep\. Mon Nov 23 10:21:26 -0600 2009 Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0600 2009 U.S. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), speaking Thursday in Washington at the National Jewish Leadership Advocacy Day on Iran, told more than 300 Jewish leaders that he will mark up the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act in October and ... 'd':13 '300':31 'act':44 'day':25 'rep':9 'u.s':8 'blog':5,6,52 'iran':27,40 'mark':37 'told':28 'calif':14 'octob':46 'refin':41 'speak':15 'archiv':7 'berman':11 'howard':10 'jewish':22,32 'leader':33 'nation':21 'reform':3,50 'conserv':2,49 'd-calif':12 'network':4,51 'advocaci':24 'sanction':43 'thursday':16 'petroleum':42 'leadership':23 'washington':18 6745277 false true google blog The Conservative Reform Network Blog http://crnblog.org/ OK http://crnblog.org/?p=4533 400025 Person rep\. Mon Nov 23 10:21:18 -0600 2009 Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0600 2009 HOWARD BERMAN D CA-28* Rep. MIKE QUIGLEY D IL-5* Rep. BRAD ELLSWORTH D IN-8* Rep. JACKIE SPEIER D CA-12* Rep. GEORGE MILLER D CA-7* Rep. SUSAN DAVIS D CA-53* Rep. LORETTA SANCHEZ D CA-47* Rep. JOE BACA D CA-43* Rep. ... 'd':14,20,26,32,38,44,50,56 '-5':22 '-7':40 '-8':28 'ca':15,33,39,45,51,57 'il':21 'us':2,61 '-12':34 '-28':16 '-43':58 '-47':52 '-53':46 'joe':54 'rep':17,23,29,35,41,47,53,59 'baca':55 'brad':24 'davi':43 'give':1,60 'mike':18 'georg':36 'jacki':30 'susan':42 'berman':13 'howard':12 'miller':37 'speier':31 'liberti':3,62 'loretta':48 'quigley':19 'sanchez':49 'ellsworth':25 'california':11 'communista':9 6745271 false true google blog Give Us Liberty http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/ OK http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-here-we-have-communista-from.html 400025 Person rep\. Mon Nov 23 10:21:18 -0600 2009 Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0600 2009 "It is the only country in the world where our people are not allowed to go," said Rep. Howard Berman, D-California, at the start of a hearing on whether it is time to lift the travel ban. "Let's face it. By any objective measure, ... 'd':33 'go':27 'ban':9,50 'key':1 'let':51 'rep':29 'u.s':2 'call':4 'cuba':11 'face':53 'hear':40 'lift':6,47 'said':28 'time':45 'allow':25 'peopl':22 'start':37 'world':19 'berman':31 'friend':59 'habano':61 'howard':30 'lawmak':3 'measur':58 'object':57 'travel':8,49 'countri':16 'whether':42 'california':34 'd-california':32 6745269 false true google blog Friends of Habanos http://www.friendsofhabanos.com/forum/index.php OK http://www.friendsofhabanos.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=99253 400025 Person rep\. Mon Nov 23 10:21:18 -0600 2009 Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Joe Lieberman, the former vice presidential candidate. To the other stood Rep. Howard Berman, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And as these two staunch Jewish supporters of Israel nodded their encouragement, ... 'jew':9 'joe':13 'nod':44 'rep':24 'two':38 'way':12 'hous':31 'vice':17 'build':4 'state':6 'stood':23 '500000':8 'affair':33 'antoni':47 'berman':26 'candid':19 'former':16 'howard':25 'israel':43 'jewish':40 'foreign':32 'staunch':39 'support':41 'chairman':28 'committe':34 'encourag':46 'lieberman':14 'presidenti':18 'loewenstein':48 'palestinian':3 6745272 false true google blog Antony Loewenstein http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/11/14/youtube-of-the-day-26/ OK http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/11/22/how-do-palestinians-build-a-state-with-500000-jews-in-the-way/ 400025 Person house of representatives Mon Nov 23 10:21:18 -0600 2009 Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0600 2009 His wife Yoani Sanchez also sent a letter to Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif) that was read in the U. S. House of Representatives on November 19 in support of legislation that would allow all U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba. ... 'd':25 'u':32 '19':39 'mob':6 'pro':4 'rep':21 'u.s':48 'also':16 'cuba':2,53,55 'hous':34 'read':29 'sent':17 'wife':13 'allow':46 'calif':26 'cuban':8 'invis':1,54 'would':45 'yoani':14 'attack':7 'berman':23 'castro':5,11 'dissid':9 'howard':22 'legisl':43 'letter':19 'novemb':38 'repres':36 'travel':51 'citizen':49 'd-calif':24 'sanchez':15 'support':41 'pro-castro':3 6745273 false true google blog Invisible Cuba http://invisiblecuba.blogspot.com/ OK http://www.invisiblecuba.blogspot.com/2009/11/pro-castro-mob-attacks-cuban-dissident.html 400025 Person republican Mon Nov 23 10:21:18 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Richard Lugar (R-Indiana, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) and Rep. Howard Berman (D-California, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee) jointly published an op-ed Tuesday in the Miami Herald ... 'd':25 'r':10 'ed':39 'op':38 'op-':37 'rep':21 'hous':30 'link':6 'plan':1,45 'rank':12 'joint':34 'lugar':8 'miami':43 'relat':18 'senat':16 'affair':32 'berman':23 'beyond':4,48 'friday':5 'herald':44 'howard':22 'foreign':17,31 'indiana':11 'publish':35 'richard':7 'tuesday':40 'chairman':27 'colombia':2,46 'committe':19,33 'r-indiana':9 'california':26 'republican':13 'd-california':24 6745274 false true google blog Plan Colombia and Beyond http://www.cipcol.org/ OK http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1214 400025 Person congress Mon Nov 23 10:21:26 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0600 2009 As it has in the past, the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, led by Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) and Ranking Member Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), rushed to Israel's defense. ..... what it read in the accounts of soldiers who served in the campaign, a 'd':20 'r':30 'ca':21 'fl':31 'us':9 'led':14 'ros':27 'd-ca':19 'feed':52 'hous':10 'main':53 'past':7 'r-fl':29 'rank':23 'read':39 'rush':32 'serv':46 'affair':12 'berman':18 'defens':36 'howard':17 'ileana':25 'israel':34 'member':24 'account':42 'foreign':11 'magazin':54 'soldier':44 'campaign':49 'chairman':16 'committe':13 'lehtinen':28 'kenyaimagin':51 'ros-lehtinen':26 'kenyaimagine.com':1 6745275 false true google blog kenyaimagine feed (main magazines) http://www.kenyaimagine.com/ OK http://www.kenyaimagine.com/International-Affairs/Stonewalled-US-House-rejects-war-crimes-report.html 400025 Person rep\. Mon Nov 23 10:21:18 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0600 2009 [4]In the meantime, Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, gained support for tougher sanctions on Iran through the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act. The act was approved Oct. 28. ... '4':6 'd':14 '28':43 'act':37,39 'oct':42 'rep':10 'gain':24 'hous':19 'iran':3,30,33 'wake':44 'calif':15 'immin':5 'refin':34 'affair':23 'approv':41 'berman':12 'howard':11 'america':46 'd-calif':13 'foreign':22 'meantim':9 'support':25 'tougher':27 'chairman':16 'committe':20 'sanction':1,28,36 'petroleum':35 6745270 false true google blog Wake Up America! http://america-hijacked.com/ OK http://america-hijacked.com/2009/11/20/sanctions-against-iran-now-imminent/ 400025 Person republican Mon Nov 23 10:21:26 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Florida Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a staunch defender of keeping the decades-old travel ban, told one witness who had advocated lifting it that she found some of his comments “shameful. ... Chairman Howard Berman said lawmakers shoul 'ban':8,27 'old':25 'one':29 'ros':15 'row':2,51 'wit':30 'blog':4 'cuba':6 'keep':21 'lift':34 'said':47 'told':28 'advoc':33 'debat':9 'decad':24 'found':38 'front':1,50 'shame':43 'shoul':49 'archiv':5 'berman':46 'defend':19 'howard':45 'ileana':13 'lawmak':48 'repres':12 'travel':7,26 'comment':42 'florida':10 'staunch':18 'chairman':44 'lehtinen':16 'republican':11 'washington':3,52 'decades-old':23 'ros-lehtinen':14 6745278 false true google blog Front Row Washington http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/ OK http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2009/11/19/cuba-travel-ban-debate-elicits-strong-feelings/