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      <excerpt>...night of the conference, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to denounce the report, claiming it is biased. Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., sponsors of the bill, spoke to the 200 people in the audience. Berman sai</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...on Israel each year in the Jewish state's capital. Also among those present were House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.); the committee's ranking Republican, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.). T</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of human rights and the principle of holding accountable human rights violators.&quot; In addition, Judge Richard Goldstone sent Rep. Howard Berman and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen a four-page letter rebutting the inaccuracies about the Goldstone Report found in</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...urges President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton not to give it further legitimacy or attention. U.S. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), its ranking Re</excerpt>
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      <title>AIPAC urges House to pass anti-Goldstone legislation</title>
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      <excerpt>...debating a resolution to denounce a U.N. report into Israeli and Hamas war crimes in last year&#8217;s Gaza war co-sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman&#8217;s (D-Calif), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The author of that report, South African Judge</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...was introduced by U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), its chairman. This article was made possible by the support of readers like you. Donate to JTA now</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Howard Berman (D-Calif.) Eric Cantor (R-Va.) Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.) Susan Davis (D-Calif.) Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) Bob Filner (D-Calif.) Barney Frank (D-Mass.) Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) Jane Harman (D-Calif.) ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Howard Berman (Calif.) Leonard Boswell (Iowa) G.K. Butterfield (N.C.) Steve Cohen (Tenn.) Called the measure &#8220;America&amp;#39;s bill&#8221; Gerry Connolly (Va.) Had expressed concern about tax provisions in initial bill ... Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.)  undecided </excerpt>
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