Late last night, the House of Representatives sent legislation originally authored by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) to the President’s desk to bolster the State Department’s rewards program, currently focused mainly on terrorists and drug traffickers. With the President’s signature, the rewards program will expand to also target transnational organized criminals and those wanted for the […]

Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the incoming Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released the following statement condemning North Korea’s missile launch, the regime’s second rocket launch this year: “Today’s launch is the latest alarming chapter in a decades long story. U.S. policy toward North Korea is a long running failure. “This new edition […]

Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), incoming Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released the following statement in reaction to Egypt’s draft constitution, President Morsi’s consolidation of power, and the protests roiling Cairo. "Egypt – at the center of the Arab world – is at a crossroads. It can follow the path of the Muslim […]

Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the incoming Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released the following statement in reaction to North Korea’s planned multistage rocket launch in the coming weeks. “The Kim regime, with its long history of proliferation in South Asia and the Middle East, continues to be a grave threat to peace […]

U.S. Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) was selected today by the Republican Steering Committee to chair the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the 113th Congress. Royce will succeed Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who was term limited. The decision of the Steering Committee, a group of Republican leaders chaired by Speaker John Boehner, is expected to be ratified […]