Committee Activity
Past Events
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul issued the following statement on the Biden-Harris administration's failure to use Congressionally-mandated authorities to support Ukraine's fight against Vladamir Putin's unprovoked war of aggression.
Washington, D.C. – Tomorrow, February 8th, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will be conducting an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress.
Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Time: 1:30pmET
Location: U.S. Capitol, HVC-210
Participants: All House Foreign Affairs Committee members
Watch live here.
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Washington, D.C. – The Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations will convene a hearing entitled, "Meeting the Challenges of Global Brain Health: Diagnosis and Treatment for the 21st Century," on Wednesday, November 20th.
What: Hearing – "Meeting the Challenges of Global Brain Health: Diagnosis and Treatment for the 21st Century"
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Time: 2:00pm ET
Location: Rayburn 2172
Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement on Ambassador Cindy McCain succeeding David Beasley as Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, The Washington Post published an op-ed exposing how Democrats long championed merging the United States Agency for International Development with the State Department before their hypocritical U-turn.
Marc A. Thiessen writes for the Post:
"Shuttering USAID is not some evil MAGA plot. In fact, it was first proposed by a Democrat — Secretary of State Warren Christopher — who tried to close the foreign aid agency during the Clinton administration."
Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) are urging the presidents of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to leverage their position in the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) to stop the bank's development funding from propping up the Nicaraguan regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast delivered a message to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran to kick off a full a full committee hearing on countering the Iranian regime's malign activities.
-Remarks-
Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul will join Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo this Sunday, April 16th.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast issued the following statement in response to the successful U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.
"President Trump assured America and the world that there would be no Iranian nuclear weapons and he has no fictitious red lines. America and Iran both had a choice and we both chose action."
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Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks sent a letter with a bipartisan group of members to the United Nations Secretary-General conveying strong concern over the Taliban's mandates banning Afghan women from working for nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and the United Nations (UN) in Afghanistan, and encouraging the UN to continue its support for Afghan women by opposing male-only humanitarian aid implementation.