Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), joined by Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation Lead Republican Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Chairman Ami Bera (D-CA), have released the following joint statement in response to reports that ASEAN may invite senior members […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has issued the following statement after the Senate failed to enact mandatory sanctions against the Russian malign influence project Nord Stream 2. Mandatory sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline have previously received bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.  “After President Biden […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Lead Republican Frank Lucas (R-OK) and House Committee on Energy and Commerce Lead Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to President Biden on the administration’s lack of response to requests from Congress on COVID-19.  […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Armed Services Committee Lead Republican Mike Rogers (R-AL), Senate Armed Services Committee Lead Republican Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Lead Republican Jim Risch (R-ID) released a statement following talks between NATO and Russia on the situation in Ukraine. “So […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and 109 House Republicans sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the administration to pull out of the fruitless Vienna talks to re-enter the JCPOA.  “Iran’s growing nuclear provocations, while stalling progress in negotiations, are the epitome of bad faith. The […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Lead Republican Jim Risch (R-ID) and Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today sent a letter to President Biden requesting a restoration of U.S. leadership on the crisis in Syria. The leaders asked the president […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Armed Services Committee Lead Republican Mike Rogers (R-AL), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Lead Republican Mike Turner (R-OH) and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) released the following statement on introducing the Guaranteeing Ukrainian Autonomy by Reinforcing its Defense (GUARD) […]

Washington, D.C. – Almost one year into Biden’s presidency, the Biden Administration is participating in a series of high-stakes diplomatic engagements with the Putin regime next week. Unfortunately, this administration has failed time and time again to hold Russia accountable for its continued malign behavior. House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul outlined some areas where the administration’s Russia policy has missed the mark: […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) issued the following statement regarding recent events in Sudan, including reports of the use of military equipment and excessive force against peaceful pro-democracy protestors. “We strongly and unequivocally condemn the Sudanese military’s violent crackdown against pro-democracy protestors and […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to licenses issued by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control today that provide broad sanctions carveouts that could benefit the Taliban.  “I have consistently supported efforts to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance directly to the Afghan people, who are […]