Press Releases

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Foreign Relations Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) issued the following statement after 11 wrongfully detained Americans were released by the Maduro regime in Venezuela in exchange for the release of Alex Saab, a Venezuelan-Colombian businessman with known connections to cartels and terrorist organizations. 

Washington, DC – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement on the House National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the 2024 fiscal year. The legislation passed the House with broad bipartisan support.

Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul delivered remarks at a full committee markup on bills to restrict the flow of critical technologies fueling the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and H.R. 3569, the Expansion of the Starr-Camargo Bridge near Rio Grande City, TX.

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).

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul announced the full committee will hold a markup to consider various measures regarding export controls, restricting the flow of foreign nations' support to the Taliban, and strengthening sanctions against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups for their ongoing use of human shields on Wednesday, December 13th.

Washington, D.C. – This week, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Africa hearing entitled, "The Sahel in Crisis: Examining U.S. Policy Options." In his remarks, Chairman McCaul underscored the need to elevate Sudan policy within the Biden administration, to create a Special Envoy who would report directly to the President, and to reexamine the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership.

Washington, D.C. — Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released a 90-Day Review Report of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS), the regulatory body responsible for regulating dual-use export controls.