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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith delivered opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing titled "Defending Religious Freedom Around the World". 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee Chairman Mike Lawler delivered opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing titled "U.S. Policy Toward Lebanon: Obstacles to Dismantling Hezbollah’s Grip on Power". 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast issued the following statement in support of President Trump’s expanded Mexico City policy which ensures U.S. foreign assistance does not subsidize for abortion, gender ideology, or DEI programs. 

“Under President Biden, foreign assistance funding was siphoned off for Beltway bandits, woke NGOs, and abortion. That era is over. By issuing a new, expanded version of the Mexico City policy, President Trump is preventing such a despicable misuse of taxpayer funding from occurring again.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith delivered opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing titled "Advancing Peace in DRC and Rwanda through President Trump’s Washington Accords". 

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced the AI Overwatch Act as part of a full committee markup.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing titled "Winning the AI Arms Race against the Chinese Communist Party".

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast joined fellow members of the committee in introducing a bipartisan bill to end China’s chokehold over global critical mineral supply and unleash U.S. domestic mineral production. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast and Europe Subcommittee Chairman Keith Self pledged to work alongside the Trump administration in meaningfully modernizing the United States’ arms control and risk reduction approaches amid increasing challenges posed by Russia, China, and other adversaries.

In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio the lawmakers underscored Russia’s blatant violations of the New START Treaty, an Obama-era negotiated arms control agreement set to expire on February 5, 2026.