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Washington, DC- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul gave the following remarks at a full committee hearing examining the administration's disastrous emergency evacuation from Afghanistan. 

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul sent a letter to Under Secretary of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Alan Estevez requesting clarification of the Biden administration's licensing policy regarding Huawei.

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm and National Intelligence Director Avril Haines regarding the DOE's assessment that concludes the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely caused by a lab leak in China.

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul announced the full Committee will convene a hearing entitled "During and After the Fall of Kabul: Examining the Administration's Emergency Evacuation from Afghanistan" on Wednesday, March 8th to examine the administration's disastrous emergency evacuation from Afghanistan. New witnesses have been added.

What: Hearing – "During and After the Fall of Kabul: Examining the Administration's Emergency Evacuation from Afghanistan"

Washington, D.C.– This week, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) sent a letter to President Biden calling for a determination and sanction authorization on Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., a surveillance company facilitating internationally recognized human rights violations against Uyghur and Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has released the following statement in response to the bipartisan committee action to disclose updated data on licensing outcomes from the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).

"It is unacceptable BIS approved more than $23 billion worth of licenses to sell U.S. technology to blacklisted companies based in China. This critical U.S. technology is going to the Chinese Communist Party's surveillance and military efforts. BIS must and can do more." 

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the department's ongoing failure to produce documents and information requested by the committee pertaining to the Biden administration's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. To date, the State Department has produced only 236 pages of documents, most of which were already publicly available or included substantial redactions. If the department's noncompliance persists, the committee will be forced to proceed with compulsory process.

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing grave concern regarding the administration's failure to impose visa restriction sanctions on members of the Taliban who are responsible for the abhorrent treatment of Afghan women and girls.