Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting information on the relationship between Iran and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). “The PRC’s role as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council gives it significant power to block […]

Washington, DC – Earlier this month, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican and Chairman of the China Task Force Michael McCaul reintroduced his “Countering Chinese Communist Party Malign Influence Act,” a measure to authorize $300 million in existing funding to counter the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party. The Act will help ensure these resources remain […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement ahead of Ambassador John Kerry’s trip to China after further reports reveal forced labor central to the Chinese Communist Party’s green energy policies. “Ambassador Kerry is sending the absolute wrong signal by planning to travel to the People’s Republic […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement on reports of a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan by September. “I am shocked and extremely concerned by reports of President Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by September. This will mean we are not leaving a residual force […]

Washington, DC – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks issued the following statement in response to the lower house of the Somali parliament voting to extend President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s term by two years:  “We are deeply concerned by recent developments surrounding Somalia’s elections, particularly the legislation to extend President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s (Farmaajo) mandate […]

Washington, DC –Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) led a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers in sending a letter to President Biden, urging him to make bold investments in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. Reps. McCaul and Matsui are the sponsors of the CHIPS for America Act, […]

Washington, DC – On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 10:00AM, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration, and International Economic Policy will hold a hearing examining US foreign policy priorities toward Central America, with a focus on addressing the root causes of migration from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Vice Lead Republican Ann Wagner (R-MO) and International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact Subcommittee Lead Republican Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) visited the southern U.S. border. The group, led by Minority Whip Steve Scalise and joined by other Members of Congress, met with […]

Washington, DC – House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement after the Biden Administration lifted sanctions on the International Criminal Court’s prosecutors. “The United States is committed to justice both at home and abroad, including when ICC prosecutors target military personnel in a rogue inquiry. There must be real consequences to their […]

ICYMI: McCaul and Diaz-Balart in WSJ: Appeasing Cuba’s Regime Didn’t Work By: House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) Wall Street Journal April 2, 2021 For more than 60 years, a dictatorship has imposed a violently oppressive system on the Cuban people. Its human-rights abuses grew worse under […]