Committee Activity
Past Events
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Ranking Member Gregory W Meeks (D-NY) issued the following statement expressing deep concern over the unfolding situation in Niamey, Niger.
Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Congressman Michael Lawler (R-NY) sent a letter to the State Department expressing their concern with the existing backlog for processing passports, as well as allegations that bad actors are taking advantage of Americans seeking their passports for urgent and emergency travel. The lawmakers also urged the State Department to prosecute those guilty of fraud and punish them to the fullest extent of the law.
Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul issued the following statement on the recent Turkish actions in Syria.
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific Chairwoman Young Kim (R-CA) issued the following statement ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's meeting with China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, as the Chinese Communist Party continues to wrongfully detain American citizens and engage in aggressive military posturing in the South China Sea.
Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul gave the following remarks at a full committee hearing regarding the Biden administration's disastrous Afghanistan policy, which has led to the growth of terrorism, the loss of rights for Afghan women and girls, the taking of American hostages, and the theft of humanitarian aid.
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul issued the following statement following the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control's (OFAC) implementation of sanctions on Chinese entities following the Putin regime's unprovoked war of aggression and increasingly close cooperation between Putin and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
College Station, TX – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has released the following statement in response to reports that United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) employees were complicit in Hamas' October 7th attacks in Israel that left more than 1,200 people dead and resulted in more than 240 people taken hostage.
Washington, D.C. – Tonight, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken threatening to hold him in contempt of Congress if the department continues to withhold interview documents relied on to draft their After-Action Review (AAR) of the Biden administration's deadly and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul delivered remarks and questioned witnesses at a hearing to examine export controls as a tool to counter the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and America's adversaries. Chairman McCaul noted numerous examples of how American technology is fueling the CCP's military expansion and espionage, such as the its spy balloon and hypersonic missile program. During his questioning, witnesses confirmed America's export control regime needs dire reform to counter America's allies and strengthen U.S.
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul spoke at a House Rules Committee hearing in support of his bill H.R. 8038, the "21st Century Peace through Strength Act," which will serve as the fourth pillar of the House Republican national security supplemental package.