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WASHINGTON, DC-Today, Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA), a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement on the Trump Administration’s airstrikes against Syria:
“Bashar al-Assad is responsible for a heinous attack which is wholly outside the norms of international behavior. Syria’s use of chemical weapons on innocent civilians is a violation of international law, Syria’s legal obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and UN Security Council Resolution 2118.
WASHINGTON, DC- Last week, Congressman Garamendi, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, joined Republican colleague Rep. Walter B. Jones (NC-3) to introduce H.R. 1666. This bipartisan legislation would ban further funding for operations in Afghanistan after 1 year unless Congress debates and passes legislation specifically approving continued military operations there.
WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, Congressman John Garamendi (D-Yuba City, Fairfield, Davis, CA) and other Members of the California Congressional delegation sent a bipartisan letter to President Donald Trump asking him to “rapidly declare a Presidential Declaration of Major Disaster for the State of California as a result of an atmospheric river storm system that affected the State of California from January 18 through January 23, 2017.” This declaration would immediately unlock federal resources for 16 counties that were not included in Governor Brown’s February 10th