Syria’s slaughterhouse

Blog 05.15.17

This week, the House will vote on bipartisan legislation to sanction Bashar al-Assad’s foreign backers and support prosecution of war criminals in Syria.

House to vote on toughest sanctions yet on North Korea

Blog 05.04.17

Remember, if we shut down their economy, they can’t move forward with their nuclear program.

Stopping North Korea’s Slave Labor Exports

Blog 05.03.17

$1.2-$2.3 billion annually. That’s how much Kim Jong Un brings in each year from North Korean slave laborers sent to other countries.

Chairman Royce, National Geographic Talk Wildlife Trafficking

Blog 05.03.17

Some of our world’s most iconic wildlife is being killed on such a large scale that extinction is very real.

This Week: House Will Act to Tighten North Korea Sanctions

Blog 05.02.17

Here’s what you need to know ahead of today's consideration of Chairman Royce’s Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act, H.R. 1644.

North Korea remains a house of horrors

Blog 04.27.17

This week, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) met with North Korean defectors to hear directly from men and women who have suffered under the Kim regime’s cruel and abusive rule.

PHOTO: Chairman Royce Meets with Syria’s White Helmets

Blog 04.26.17

Ahead of tomorrow’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing entitled “Syria After the Missile Strikes: Policy Options,” Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) met with Raed al-Saleh, Mounir Mustafa, Jehad Mahameed, and Manal Abazeed – members of the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets – to receive an update on the latest in Syria.

We are not going to allow Iran to mass produce ICBMs

Blog 04.20.17

Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on the Situation Room to discuss Iran’s missile program and the administration’s Iran policy review. Key excerpts and video are below. “What I think we will see, Wolf, at the end of the day is a circumstance in which you have the […]

On CNN SOTU, Chairman Royce says U.S. must “shut off every dime” to North Korea

Blog 04.17.17

“Even in failure, this program continues to advance. And they will be… in the not-too-distant future, in a position where they could hit all 50 states… with an ICBM."

Putin Protects Assad at UN – Again

Blog 04.13.17

“The legislation I passed through the House [last year] with Eliot Engel, my ranking member, to… put additional sanctions on Putin’s Russia and Iran as a consequence of their support here for Assad… we are now bringing that bill up again."