“I’m glad we’ve closed the book on Obama budgets that were chock-full of more taxes and more spending, but I don’t support deep cuts to the State Department and Agency for International Development that undermine national security."

Today, the House of Representatives passed the Targeted Rewards for the Global Eradication of Human Trafficking (TARGET) Act (H.R. 1625), which was introduced by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL). The bipartisan TARGET Act turns the tables on human traffickers by allowing the State Department to use cash rewards to help bring them to justice.

"Taiwan’s exclusion from this year’s World Health Assembly only hurts global health. Having responded to global health challenges with financial and technical assistance, Taiwan has much to contribute to international efforts to improve public health. That’s why it has been invited to the World Health Assembly for the past eight years. There should have been no question about its participation in this year’s event. World health should not be held hostage by Beijing."

Congressman Ted S. Yoho (R-FL), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, introduced the Distribution and Promotion of Rights and Knowledge Act of 2017 – HR 2397. This bipartisan legislation has the support of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA).

“Today the Ayatollah is offering a choice between his handpicked candidates: a hardliner and a hard hardliner. Regardless of who is elected, Tehran will continue to oppress its people and advance terror and ballistic missile programs that threaten the world. Iranians deserve better.”

President Maduro’s corrupt authoritarianism is pushing Venezuela to the brink of total meltdown. Shortages of basic food and medicine are worsening, and infant deaths are soaring. Violent regime crackdowns on political opposition are ongoing. I welcome the administration’s move to sanction those helping Maduro squash all dissent, and again urge regional leaders to unite – both in words and in action – to address this crisis.

Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “U.S. Interests in Africa.”

"We’ve got to get to the bottom of Russia’s efforts to meddle in our democratic process so we can keep it from happening again.”

Tonight the House of Representatives passed the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act (H.R.1677). The bipartisan bill, introduced by Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), seeks to impose sanctions on supporters of Syria’s Assad regime, encourage negotiations to end ongoing atrocities, and support prosecution of war criminals.

This bipartisan legislation would require the U.S. to develop a comprehensive strategy to increase and strengthen women’s participation in peace negotiations and conflict prevention globally.