Committee Activity
Past Events
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere will host a bipartisan roundtable meeting with María Corina Machado, Venezuela's leading opposition figure and presidential candidate who was banned from participating in Venezuela's presidential elections by the Maduro regime.
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific Chairwoman Young Kim (R-CA), and Ranking Member Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) issued the following statement on the recent passage of the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act (COFA).
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) released the following statement on the Palestinian Authority's (PA) request for full membership at the United Nations (UN).
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) sent a letter to President Biden and Secretary Blinken urging the repeal of NSM-20, which creates redundant bureaucratic requirements that erode America's ability to provide security assistance to its partners and allies, especially Israel.
Washington D.C. – The Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability will postpone a hearing entitled, "Money is Policy: Assessing Shortcomings in the State Department's Foreign Assistance Grants Process."
What: Hearing – "Money is Policy: Assessing Shortcomings in the State Department's Foreign Assistance Grants Process"
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Location: Rayburn 2200
Witnesses:
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) issued the following statement on the Houthis' crackdown on aid operations.
Radical Islamist terrorists are determined to destroy our way of life. Through acts of terror and genocide, they are waging war on anyone who does not share their twisted ideology.
Over the past year, important progress has been made in the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. But despite these successes, the terrorist threat continues as fighters return home, and radical elements spread in Africa, Central Asia and across ISIS’s online “virtual caliphate.”
Washington, D.C. — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul issued the following statement announcing committee activity in wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturning Chevron deference.
Sydney, Australia — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement on the administration's certification to Congress that Australia and the U.K. will be granted a defense trade exemption with the U.S. This exemption will remove significant red tape and administrative burdens on U.S. companies by relaxing the International Traffic in Arms Regulation's (ITAR) requirements that currently limit defense cooperation between the three countries.
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