Committee Activity

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast issued the following statement in response to Russia’s violation of Polish airspace:

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul gave the following remarks at a full committee markup of H.Res. 377. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith delivered opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing titled "Stopping the Bloodshed: U.S. Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Sudan". 

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has secured an agreement with Secretary Blinken that would allow all Members of the committee a reasonable opportunity to view the dissent channel cable and the response. In response, Chairman McCaul has agreed this would be a satisfactory accommodation to the subpoena and would take contempt off the table. This is the first time in U.S. history that a dissent channel cable has been provided to Congress.

Washington, D.C. — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL) sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing serious concerns about America's financial commitment to the United Nations' Green Climate Fund – an investment funneling millions to China, the world's largest carbon-emitter, under its continued status as a "developing country."

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has signed a subpoena that was delivered to Secretary of State Antony Blinken this morning for the "Afghanistan AAR files," the collection of underlying documents used to produce the State Department's After-Action Review (AAR).

Austin, TX - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) co-led a letter to President Biden underscoring concern over reports his administration has contemporaneously brokered a $6 billion prisoner deal and a nuclear understanding with the Iranian regime that are intrinsically linked, without submitting it for Congressional review pursuant to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 ("INARA"; 42 U.S.C. 2160e). 

Washington, D.C. — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul issued a statement following reports that Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso — three West African Sahel countries ruled by military juntas — signed a mutual defense security pact establishing the Alliance of Sahel States.