[House Report 113-318]
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113th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    113-318
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                                                 Union Calendar No. 236

              LEGISLATIVE REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES

                                 of the

                      COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

                               __________

                    ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH CONGRESS

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                                A REPORT

FILED PURSUANT TO RULE XI OF THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AND SECTION 136 OF THE LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1946 (2 U.S.C. 
                           190d), AS AMENDED 
         BY SECTION 118 OF THE LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION ACT 
           OF 1970 (PUBLIC LAW 91-510), AS AMENDED BY PUBLIC 
                               LAW 92-136




January 2, 2014.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed
                     U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                      COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
                          COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
                             113th Congress

                 EDWARD R. ROYCE, California, Chairman

                                (25-21)

CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey     ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York
ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida         ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA, American 
DANA ROHRABACHER, California             Samoa
STEVE CHABOT, Ohio                   BRAD SHERMAN, California
JOE WILSON, South Carolina           GREGORY W. MEEKS, New York
MICHAEL T. McCAUL, Texas             ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey
TED POE, Texas                       GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia
MATT SALMON, Arizona                 THEODORE E. DEUTCH, Florida
TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania             BRIAN HIGGINS, New York
JEFF DUNCAN, South Carolina          KAREN BASS, California
ADAM KINZINGER, Illinois             WILLIAM KEATING, Massachusetts
MO BROOKS, Alabama                   DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island
TOM COTTON, Arkansas                 ALAN GRAYSON, Florida
PAUL COOK, California                JUAN VARGAS, California
GEORGE HOLDING, North Carolina       BRADLEY S. SCHNEIDER, Illinois
RANDY K. WEBER SR., Texas            JOSEPH P. KENNEDY III, 
SCOTT PERRY, Pennsylvania                Massachusetts
STEVE STOCKMAN, Texas                AMI BERA, California
RON DeSANTIS, Florida                ALAN S. LOWENTHAL, California
TREY RADEL, Florida                  GRACE MENG, New York
DOUG COLLINS, Georgia                LOIS FRANKEL, Florida
MARK MEADOWS, North Carolina         TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii
TED S. YOHO, Florida                 JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas
LUKE MESSER, Indiana

     Amy Porter, Chief of Staff      Thomas Sheehy, Staff Director

               Jason Steinbaum, Democratic Staff Director


                            C O N T E N T S

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Letter of Transmittal............................................     V
Foreword.........................................................   VII
 I. Introduction: Oversight of Foreign Affairs........................1
          A. Authorities for Legislative Review..................     1
          B. Oversight Developments in the Committee on Foreign 
              Affairs............................................     3
          C. Oversight Activities and Criteria...................     3
          D. Oversight Plan for the 113th Congress...............     4
II. General Review Activities of the Committee.......................11
          A. Executive Branch Reports and Congressional 
              Notifications......................................    11
          B. Reference Documents.................................    12
          C. Study Missions and Participation in International 
              Conferences and Events.............................    13
III.Summary of Legislative Activity..................................13

          A. Full Committee Markup Summaries.....................    13
          B. Committee Reports Filed.............................    17
          C. Foreign Affairs Legislation Considered by the House.    17
IV. Meetings of the Full Committee and Subcommittees.................19
          A. Full Committee......................................    19
          B. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human 
              Rights, and International Organizations............    21
          C. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific................    26
          D. Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging 
              Threats............................................    28
          E. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa....    30
          F. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and 
              Trade..............................................    33
          G. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere..............    35
          H. Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Mismanagement, and Oversight 
              Hearings...........................................    37
          I. Committee-Hosted Dignitary Meetings.................    42
Appendix:
  Membership of the Subcommittees of the Committee on Foreign 
    Affairs......................................................    45

                         LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

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                          House of Representatives,
                              Committee on Foreign Affairs,
                                   Washington, DC, January 2, 2014.
Honorable Karen L. Haas,
Clerk of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.

    Dear Ms. Haas: I enclose herewith an annual report of the 
Legislative Review and Oversight Activities of the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs for the 113th Congress in accordance with rule 
XI of the Rules of House of Representatives and section 136 of 
the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended by 
section 118 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, as 
amended by Public Law 92-136. This report covers committee 
activities from the beginning of the 113th Congress through 
December 20, 2013.
            Sincerely,
                                           Edward R. Royce,
                                                          Chairman.

                                FOREWORD

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                          House of Representatives,
                              Committee on Foreign Affairs,
                                   Washington, DC, January 2, 2014.

    Under section 2 of rule X of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives, and section 136 of the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 832, as amended by section 
118 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (Public Law 
91-510) and Public Law 92-136 (1971)), the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs is charged with reviewing and studying, on a continuing 
basis, the application, administration, execution, and 
effectiveness of laws and programs within its jurisdiction.
    As part of that oversight, rule XI(1)(d) of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives require the committee to submit to 
the House an annual report on committee activities not later 
January 2 of each year. This report, which covers committee 
activities from the beginning of the 113th Congress through 
December 20, 2013, has been prepared and submitted in 
fulfillment of that obligation.


                                                 Union Calendar No. 236
113th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    113-318

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              LEGISLATIVE REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES

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January 2, 2014.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
             State of the Union and ordered to be printed.

                                _______
                                

           Mr. Royce, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

             I. INTRODUCTION: OVERSIGHT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS


                 A. Authorities for Legislative Review

    The legislative review and oversight responsibilities of 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs are reflected in multiple 
authorities, with the most prominent being section 118 of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-510):

 Legislative Review by Standing Committees of the Senate and House of 
                            Representatives

    (a) Scope of assistance.
    In order to assist the Congress in--

          (1) Its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of the 
        application, administration, and execution of the laws 
        enacted by the Congress, and
          (2) Its formulation, consideration, and enactment of 
        such modifications of or changes in those laws, and of 
        such additional legislation, as may be necessary or 
        appropriate, each standing committee of the Senate and 
        the House of Representatives shall review and study, on 
        a continuing basis, the application, administration, 
        and execution of those laws, or parts of laws, the 
        subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of 
        that committee. Such committees may carry out the 
        required analysis, appraisals, and evaluation 
        themselves, or by contract, or may require a Government 
        agency to do so and furnish a report thereon to the 
        Congress. Such committees may rely on such techniques 
        as pilot testing, analysis of costs in comparison with 
        benefits, or provision for evaluation after a defined 
        period of time.\1\
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    \1\Section 701 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344) amended the original mandate and 
authority of the 1970 act by adding the last two sentences regarding 
program review and evaluation.

    Additional, special oversight authorities were granted by 
the House Committee Reform Amendments of 1974 (H. Res. 988, 
approved Oct. 8, 1974). Special oversight, which is intended to 
enable committees to conduct comprehensive oversight of matters 
directly bearing upon their specified responsibilities even if 
those matters fall within the jurisdiction of other standing 
committees, permits an expansion of the legislative review 
jurisdiction of a committee. The Committee on Foreign Affairs 
currently has special oversight jurisdiction in four areas 
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under clause 3(f) of House Rule X:

          3. (f) The Committee on Foreign Affairs shall review 
        and study on a continuing basis laws, programs, and 
        Government activities relating to customs 
        administration, intelligence activities relating to 
        foreign policy, international financial and monetary 
        organizations, and international fishing agreements.

    Reporting requirements in legislation frequently obligate 
various agencies, directly or through the President, to submit 
reports of certain activities to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs or to the Speaker of the House, who then transmits them 
to the committee. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs is the 
recipient of one of the largest quantities of required reports 
from the executive branch.
    In addition to the authorities noted above, the 
congressional budget process provides the committee with 
another important tool for oversight. Pursuant to section 
301(c) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974, 
each standing committee of the House is required to submit to 
the Committee on the Budget, no later than March 15 of each 
year, a report containing its views and estimates on the 
President's proposed budget for the coming fiscal year. This 
requirement affords the committee and its subcommittees the 
opportunity to review those items in the President's budget 
which fall under the committee's jurisdiction, and to establish 
possible guidelines for subsequent action on authorizing 
legislation. The committee submitted an extensive views and 
estimates letter, along with minority views, to the Committee 
on the Budget on March 1, 2013.
    Finally, the authorization process itself provides the 
prospect of significant oversight impact, with opportunities 
for program evaluation as well as the investigation of 
personnel hiring and promotion practices, agency organization, 
employee development and benefit programs, policy guidance, and 
administrative rules and regulations regarding the 
implementation and execution of policy, among other items. H.R. 
2848, the State Department Operations and Embassy Security 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, passed by the House of 
Representatives on September 29, 2013, embodied the results of 
extensive committee oversight, particularly with regard to the 
security of U.S. diplomatic facilities overseas.

     B. Oversight Developments in the Committee on Foreign Affairs

    In the 109th Congress, the committee added a seventh 
subcommittee, the ``Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations,'' and the other six subcommittees were somewhat 
reorganized. The Subcommittee on Africa became the 
``Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International 
Operations''; the Subcommittee on Europe became the 
``Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging Threats''; the 
Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and 
Human Rights, became the ``Subcommittee on Terrorism and 
Nonproliferaton.''
    In the 110th Congress, the name of the full committee 
changed from ``International Relations,'' back to ``Foreign 
Affairs.'' The committee had seven subcommittees that were 
similar in name to the subcommittees of the 109th Congress, 
with some rearrangement of oversight, adding global health to 
the Africa Subcommittee, and global environment issues to the 
Asia-Pacific Subcommittee.
    There were no substantive changes to the committee 
structure in the 111th Congress.
    In the 112th Congress, the committee had seven 
subcommittees: Africa, Global Health and Human Rights; Asia and 
the Pacific; Europe and Eurasia; Middle East and South Asia; 
Oversight and Investigations; Terrorism Nonproliferation and 
Trade; and Western Hemisphere. Committee rule 15 (``Powers and 
Duties of Subcommittees'') and rule 24 (``General Oversight'') 
also were amended to clarify oversight requirements on priority 
topics.
    In the 113th Congress, the committee has six subcommittees: 
Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International 
Organizations; Asia and the Pacific; Europe, Eurasia, and 
Emerging Threats; Middle East and North Africa; Terrorism, 
Nonproliferation, and Trade; and Western Hemisphere. Committee 
Rule 15(e) (``Required Oversight Hearings'') was amended to 
require each subcommittee to hold at least one hearing every 
180 days on oversight of U.S. Government activities.

                  C. Oversight Activities and Criteria

    The oversight activities of the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs include a variety of instruments and mechanisms--full 
committee and subcommittee hearings, member and staff study 
missions abroad, special Congressional Research Service 
studies, and General Accounting Office assistance and reports 
in the field of international relations.
    Committee and subcommittee hearings may be conducted for 
numerous purposes and may simultaneously serve more than one 
function, i.e., oversight, legislation, or public education. 
Thus, oversight may exist even when the hearing is not 
explicitly intended for that purpose. The criteria for 
determining whether a hearing performs the oversight function 
were identified by the House Select Committee on Committees in 
1973 and are as follows:\2\
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    \2\U.S. Congress, House. Select Committee on Committees. Committee 
Reform Amendments of 1974. Report, 93rd Congress, 2d session, March 21, 
1974 (H. Rept. No. 93-916, Part II).

          (1) To review and control unacceptable forms of 
        bureaucratic behavior;
          (2) To ensure that bureaucracy implements the policy 
        objectives of the Congress;
          (3) To analyze national and international problems 
        requiring Federal action; and
          (4) To determine the effectiveness of legislative 
        programs and policies.

    These same purposes help to define other committee activity 
which relates to its legislative review function. It should be 
noted that not all such activity can be included in this 
report. Oversight also occurs informally, not only through the 
formal processes and mechanisms noted above. Informal 
discussions between committee members and executive branch 
officials may constitute oversight in certain instances, as may 
staff examination of agency activity and behavior, and staff 
consultation with agency personnel apart from the normal 
hearing process.
    In summary, the legislative review activities of the House 
Committee on Foreign Affairs for the 113th Congress rely on 
extensive authorities embodied in the Legislative 
Reorganization Act of 1970 and reinforced through the 
authorization process, subsequent legislation, and reporting 
requirements.

                D. Oversight Plan for the 113th Congress
                       (Adopted January 15, 2013)

    Almost all of the committee's day-to-day activities, 
including hearings and informal meetings, involve oversight of 
the administration or afford the committee the opportunity to 
learn of the impact of the administration's foreign policy on 
foreign nations or the American people. In fulfillment of 
clause 1(d)(2)(B) of House Rule XI, the committee's Oversight 
Plan (submitted under clause 2(d) of House Rule X) is set out 
below in full:

1. Introduction

    Pursuant to the requirements of House Rule X(2)(d)(1), the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs (``the Committee'') has adopted an 
oversight plan for the 113th Congress which will be shared with 
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the 
Committee on House Administration. This plan summarizes the 
Committee's oversight priorities for the next two years, 
subject to the understanding that new developments will 
undoubtedly affect priorities and workflow in the months ahead.
    Congressional oversight remains one of the key 
responsibilities of the legislative branch. Committee Rule 15 
requires each Subcommittee to hold regular oversight hearings. 
Oversight activities will thus be coordinated between the 
Committee and the Subcommittees, in order to facilitate 
comprehensive and strategic oversight of the programs and 
agencies within the Committee's jurisdiction.
    Oversight activities may include hearings, briefings, 
investigations, Member or staff-level meetings, correspondence, 
fact-finding travel, reports, and public statements. They may 
also include effective use and review of reports by the 
Government Accountability Office and by statutory Inspectors 
General, as well as Congressional Notifications submitted by 
executive branch agencies. The Committee will also consult, as 
appropriate, with other committees of the House that may share 
jurisdiction.
    The Committee's oversight activities will emphasize:

          effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy;
          effective implementation of U.S. law;
          the review of agencies and programs operating 
        under permanent statutory authority;
          the elimination of programs and expenditures 
        that are inefficient, duplicative, or outdated; and
          institutional reform, efficiency, and fiscal 
        discipline.

2. Priority Oversight Matters

    a. Iran: The Committee will continue to closely review U.S. 
policy to address the comprehensive threat posed by Iran to the 
United States and to its interests and allies, including, but 
not limited to: Iran's ongoing efforts to develop and acquire 
nuclear weapons capabilities, its unconventional weapons and 
ballistic missile development, its state sponsorship of 
terrorism, and its efforts to exert and expand its 
destabilizing influence and operational capabilities in the 
Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere. 
The Committee will also review political and economic support 
given Iran by other countries that is counter to U.S. 
interests. Of particular focus will be U.S. efforts to fully 
implement all sanctions with respect to Iran under U.S. law--
including human rights sanctions--as well as the status and 
enforcement of multilateral sanctions against Iran.
    b. Afghanistan: The Committee will comprehensively review 
U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, including the development and 
implementation of the Strategic Partnership Agreement Between 
the United States and Afghanistan, the effectiveness of U.S. 
assistance programs, the broader political-military and 
associated counterinsurgency and counterterrorism strategies, 
and the full range of policies related to the 2014 transition, 
including programs and budgeting processes.
    c. Pakistan: The Committee will review all elements of U.S. 
policy toward Pakistan, including efforts to eliminate safe 
havens for violent extremists and establish a stable, 
democratic country. This review will encompass all aspects of 
aid to Pakistan, both civilian and security assistance, in 
order to assess the extent to which such programs effectively 
advance U.S. national interests. The Committee will also 
conduct ongoing oversight of matters relating to Pakistan's 
nuclear program, including issues relating to nonproliferation, 
such as the legacy of the A.Q. Khan network.
    d. Middle East and North Africa: The Committee will 
carefully review U.S. policy toward the Middle East and North 
Africa, to include: the ongoing conflict in Syria and the 
related threat posed by chemical weapons; the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict and the overall status of the Middle East 
peace process; the threat posed to the U.S. and its allies by 
terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda and al-
Qaeda affiliates; the broader transitions and reform efforts 
taking place within the region inclusive of Egypt, Yemen, 
Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, Morocco, Jordan and others; and United 
States policies, programs, authorities and funding to 
effectively address these challenges. The Committee will 
conduct oversight to assure Israel's ``qualitative military 
edge.''
    e. North Korea: The Committee will review the nuclear and 
missile threat posed by North Korea, its proliferation 
activities and weapon sales involving rogue regimes, its 
illicit activities, continuing human rights violations, and 
U.S. efforts to assist North Korean refugees. The Committee 
will review U.S. diplomatic efforts and will examine next steps 
in U.S. policy to address the North Korean threat.
    f. International Terrorism and Transnational Organized 
Crime: The Committee will examine the current status of al-
Qaeda and its affiliates, with a specific focus on recruitment 
efforts, evolving safe havens, and efforts to obtain WMD. The 
Committee will conduct oversight of the State Department's 
various counterterrorism programs. The Committee will also 
examine the growing links between organized crime, illicit 
drugs, and global terrorism. Other transnational criminal 
issues of interest include maritime piracy, human, arms and 
wildlife trafficking, money laundering and intellectual 
property piracy issues.
    g. State Department Oversight, Authorization, and Reform: 
The Committee will monitor and examine the operations, budget, 
programs, planning, personnel, building, and security policies 
of the Department of State, with an eye toward authorization 
and reform legislation for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 that 
promotes U.S. national interests in a cost-effective and 
accountable manner. Special emphasis will be placed on the 
effective implementation of the recommendations of the 
Accountability Review Board, which was formed following the 
terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. In 
addition to hearings with the Secretary of State and other 
Administration officials regarding their budget proposals for 
the upcoming year, such efforts may include: review of Foreign 
Service pay, incentive, and promotion policies; consideration 
of reforms to Executive Branch reporting requirements; and an 
examination of consular processes, including passport and visa 
security issues.
    h. Asia-Pacific Region: The Committee will review the 
U.S.'s significant political, economic, and security interests 
in the Asia-Pacific, including East and Southeast Asia, South 
Asia, and Pacific Islands. The Committee will conduct oversight 
of U.S. relations with the Asia-Pacific, including foreign 
policy, foreign assistance funding, security cooperation, 
territorial disputes, and trade relations. The Committee will 
examine the State Department's participation in multilateral 
organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 
(APEC) forum and the East Asia Summit, and closely monitor the 
Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. The Committee will 
monitor the needs of Taiwan for defensive weapons systems as 
provided for in the Taiwan Relations Act.
    i. U.S. International Broadcasting: The Committee will 
actively monitor and review the operations and organization of 
the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the full range of U.S. 
government-supported, civilian international broadcasting to 
ensure the most robust and effective operation possible.
    j. China: The Committee will examine China's role in the 
Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Particular focus will be placed 
on China's assertiveness in territorial disputes, rapid 
military modernization, and human rights abuses. The Committee 
will also examine China's role in the global economy, including 
unfair trade policies that threaten American jobs, such as 
indigenous innovation and theft of intellectual property. The 
Committee will review China's support for despotic regimes in 
North Korea, Iran, and Syria, which has prevented meaningful 
sanctions from being implemented. The Committee will monitor 
the State Department's participation in the U.S.-China 
Strategic and Economic Dialogue and other related bilateral 
mechanisms. The Committee will investigate China's increasing 
use of cyber espionage to affect foreign trade, and other 
policy outcomes.
    k. Economic Policy and Trade: The Committee will take a 
vigorous role in overseeing international economic policy, 
including U.S. leadership in trade, finance, development, and 
energy policy, and how such leadership may promote economic 
prosperity and national security. This will include, but is not 
limited to, oversight of, and potential legislation relating 
to, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and 
Export Administration Act.
    l. Export Control Reform: The Committee will oversee 
proposed Executive Branch reforms of U.S. strategic export 
controls. In particular, the Committee will assess the extent 
to which proposed changes to the U.S. Munitions and Commerce 
Control Lists effectively safeguard critical technologies and 
national security, while supporting the defense industrial base 
and advancing U.S. commercial interests. The Committee will 
consider legislation on these and related matters as may be 
necessary and appropriate.
    m. U.S. Nonproliferation Policy. The Committee will examine 
the effectiveness of U.S. nonproliferation policy and the 
international nonproliferation regime in preventing the spread 
of weapons of mass destruction. The Committee will address 
opportunities to strengthen existing nonproliferation 
organizations, especially the International Atomic Energy 
Agency, increase cooperation with other countries, and enhance 
international nonproliferation agreements and mechanisms. 
Prominent issues will include the global expansion of civil 
nuclear power and the potential spread of technology, equipment 
and material useful in the development of nuclear weapons 
capabilities. The Committee will closely examine proposed and 
existing bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements with other 
countries, including their potential to promote U.S. 
nonproliferation objectives.
    n. Africa. The Committee will review political, economic 
and security developments on the African continent. Key issues 
will include efforts to eliminate safe havens for violent 
extremists, economic development--including implementation of 
the African Growth and Opportunity Act--effective use of aid, 
human rights, and responsible energy development. Particular 
attention is to be paid to the developments in Mali, Nigeria, 
Sudan and South Sudan, the Great Lakes region and the Horn of 
Africa.
    o. Western Hemisphere: The Committee will conduct oversight 
regarding the content and effectiveness of U.S. political, 
military, and economic policy toward the countries of the 
Western Hemisphere. Special emphasis will be placed on the 
prospects for expanding trade, especially with Canada and 
Mexico, as well as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and regional 
energy developments. The Committee will address continuing 
threats from narco-trafficking, organized crime, and terrorist 
organizations, including the implications of Iran's increasing 
presence and influence. The Committee will examine the 
stability of, and cooperation between, the regimes in 
Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador and Cuba.
    p. Security Assistance and Arms Transfer Policy: The 
Committee will assess the effectiveness of FAA and AECA-
authorized security assistance programs in advancing U.S. 
national interests. In addition, the Committee will review 
those security cooperation programs funded by the Department of 
Defense but which require concurrence of the Secretary of 
State, or otherwise give rise to this Committee's jurisdiction. 
The Committee will also review law and policy relating to U.S. 
arms transfers and related end-use monitoring, as well as 
various counterterrorism tools that impact foreign policy. The 
Committee will also continue to carefully review proposed arms 
sales and transfers proposed by the Administration to make sure 
they comport with U.S. foreign and national security policy, as 
well as benefit the legitimate defense needs of the recipient 
countries, and the process by which the Administration consults 
with the Committee and the Congress on such sales to ensure 
proper oversight.
    q. Russia: The Committee will address the impact of 
Russia's foreign policy on U.S. political, economic, and other 
interests in key countries and regions, with a focus on 
identifying significant areas of competition and potential 
cooperation. Of note is the Administration's announced 
intention to negotiate new agreements with Russia on limiting 
strategic forces and ballistic missile defense, including the 
U.S. system scheduled for deployment in Europe. Russia's 
adherence to the rules of the World Trade Organization and the 
impact on U.S. exports will be addressed. The Committee will 
also review how Russia's domestic policies impact the U.S., and 
will consider the country's respect for human rights, 
democratic governance, and rule of law.
    r. Europe/Eurasia: The Committee will review U.S. relations 
with European countries, with an emphasis on the European Union 
and NATO, including potential membership of the Western Balkan 
nations in those institutions. Key issues will include removal 
of barriers to trade, including a potential Trans-Atlantic Free 
Trade Area, the deployment of a regional ballistic missile 
defense system, the impact of the European financial crisis, 
diversification of energy sources, and Turkey's new foreign 
policy orientation and its domestic political evolution, among 
others. The Committee will also conduct oversight of U.S. 
policy in Central Asia, including as it relates to the 2014 
transition in Afghanistan.
    s. Foreign Assistance: The Committee will review the 
underlying authorities for U.S. foreign assistance with an eye 
towards reducing duplication, and increasing transparency and 
effectiveness. It will also review issues related to the 
subsequent implementation of U.S. foreign assistance programs 
and projects, including the role of U.S. missions and 
embassies. In addition, the Committee will review issues 
related to coordination between the U.S. Agency for 
International Development (USAID) and other U.S. Government 
agencies and departments that are involved in carrying out U.S. 
foreign assistance. Among a broad range of issues, the 
Committee will review U.S. foreign assistance initiatives aimed 
at addressing global health challenges, including maternal 
health and child survival issues, and the implementation of the 
Lantos-Hyde United States Global Leadership against HIV/AIDS, 
Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008. 
Assistance provided through the Millennium Challenge 
Corporation will also receive close scrutiny.
    t. Human Rights and Democracy: The Committee will examine 
U.S. activities to promote democracy and protect human rights 
around the world. The Committee will critically assess U.S. 
involvement with multilateral human rights mechanisms, to 
ensure that U.S. diplomacy serves to promote fundamental human 
rights and freedoms.
    u. United Nations and International Organizations: The 
Committee will closely review all aspects of U.S. funding of, 
and participation in, international organizations. Close 
attention will be paid to whether such funding and 
participation is advancing U.S. interests and values, 
protecting the integrity of U.S. taxpayer dollars, and leading 
to increased transparency, accountability, and reform of those 
organizations. The Committee will closely monitor the work of 
the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations and 
Department of Field Support, particularly efforts to improve 
performance, enhance accountability, and combat waste, fraud 
and abuse in United Nations Peacekeeping Missions.

3. General Review of U.S. Foreign Policy

    The Committee intends to exercise its oversight 
jurisdiction concerning the relations of the United States with 
foreign nations to the fullest extent allowed by House Rule 
X(1)(i). This means taking cognizance of events and 
circumstances in every region of the world outside of U.S. 
national borders, as well as U.S. foreign policy responses 
thereto, as developments warrant.
    According to Committee Rules, those responsibilities are 
divided among the Full Committee, its one functional 
subcommittee, and its five regional subcommittees, as follows:
    Full Committee. The full Committee is responsible for 
oversight and legislation relating to: foreign assistance 
(including development assistance, Millennium Challenge 
Corporation, the Millennium Challenge Account, HIV/AIDS in 
foreign countries, security assistance, and Public Law 480 
programs abroad); national security developments affecting 
foreign policy; strategic planning and agreements; war powers, 
treaties, executive agreements, and the deployment and use of 
United States Armed Forces; peacekeeping, peace enforcement, 
and enforcement of United Nations or other international 
sanctions; arms control and disarmament issues; the United 
States Agency for International Development; activities and 
policies of the State, Commerce, and Defense Departments and 
other agencies related to the Arms Export Control Act and the 
Foreign Assistance Act, including export and licensing policy 
for munitions items and technology and dual-use equipment and 
technology; international law; promotion of democracy; 
international law enforcement issues, including narcotics 
control programs and activities; Broadcasting Board of 
Governors; embassy security; international broadcasting; public 
diplomacy, including international communication and 
information policy, and international education and exchange 
programs; and all other matters not specifically assigned to a 
subcommittee. The full Committee will have jurisdiction over 
legislation with respect to the administration of the Export 
Administration Act, including the export and licensing of dual-
use equipment and technology and other matters related to 
international economic policy and trade not otherwise assigned 
to a subcommittee, and with respect to the United Nations, its 
affiliated agencies, and other international organizations, 
including assessed and voluntary contributions to such 
organizations. The full Committee may conduct oversight and 
investigations with respect to any matter within the 
jurisdiction of the Committee as defined in the Rules of the 
House of Representatives.
    Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade. 
This subcommittee has oversight and legislative 
responsibilities over the United States' efforts to manage and 
coordinate international programs to combat terrorism as 
coordinated by the Department of State and other agencies, and 
efforts to bring international terrorists to justice. With the 
concurrence of the Chairman of the full Committee, it has 
oversight of, and legislation pertaining to, nonproliferation 
matters involving nuclear, chemical, biological and other 
weapons of mass destruction, except for legislation involving 
the Foreign Assistance Act, the Arms Export Control Act, the 
Export Administration Act, and sanctions laws pertaining to 
individual countries and the provision of foreign assistance 
(which is reserved to the full Committee). It has oversight of 
matters relating to international economic and trade policy; 
commerce with foreign countries; international investment 
policy; the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the 
Trade and Development Agency; commodity agreements; and special 
oversight of international financial and monetary institutions; 
the Export-Import Bank, and customs. With the concurrence of 
the Chairman of the full Committee, it also has legislative 
jurisdiction over measures related to export promotion and 
measures related to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation 
and the Trade and Development Agency.
    Regional Subcommittees. The five subcommittees with 
regional jurisdiction are:

      The Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global 
Human Rights, and International Organizations
      The Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
      The Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging 
Threats
      The Subcommittee on the Middle East and North 
Africa
      The Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere

    As detailed below, two of the regional subcommittees also 
have functional jurisdiction.
    Each of the regional subcommittees has jurisdiction over 
the following within their respective regions:
          (1) Matters affecting the political relations between 
        the United States and other countries and regions, 
        including resolutions or other legislative measures 
        directed to such relations.
          (2) Legislation with respect to disaster assistance 
        outside the Foreign Assistance Act, boundary issues, 
        and international claims.
          (3) Legislation with respect to region- or country-
        specific loans or other financial relations outside the 
        Foreign Assistance Act.
          (4) Legislation and oversight regarding human rights 
        practices in particular countries.
          (5) Oversight of regional lending institutions.
          (6) Oversight of matters related to the regional 
        activities of the United Nations, of its affiliated 
        agencies, and of other multilateral institutions.
          (7) Identification and development of options for 
        meeting future problems and issues relating to U.S. 
        interests in the region.
          (8) Oversight of base rights and other facilities 
        access agreements and regional security pacts.
          (9) Concurrent oversight jurisdiction with respect to 
        matters assigned to the functional subcommittees 
        insofar as they may affect the region.
          (10) Oversight of foreign assistance activities 
        affecting the region, with the concurrence of the 
        Chairman of the full Committee.
          (11) Such other matters as the Chairman of the full 
        Committee may determine.

    The Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human 
Rights, and International Organizations. In addition to its 
regional jurisdiction, this subcommittee has oversight of: 
international health issues, including transboundary infectious 
diseases, maternal health and child survival, and programs 
related to the global ability to address health issues; 
population issues; the United Nations and its affiliated 
agencies (excluding peacekeeping and enforcement of United 
Nations or other international sanctions); international 
cultural and educational programs and exchanges; the American 
Red Cross; and the Peace Corps. In addition, it has legislative 
and oversight jurisdiction pertaining to: implementation of the 
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; other matters relating 
to internationally-recognized human rights, including 
legislation aimed at the promotion of human rights and 
democracy generally; and the Hague Convention on the Civil 
Aspects of International Child Abduction, and related issues.
    The Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats. 
In addition to its regional jurisdiction, with the concurrence 
of the Chairman of the full Committee, this subcommittee has 
oversight jurisdiction related to emerging foreign threats to 
the national security and interests of the United States.

             II. GENERAL REVIEW ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE


      A. Executive Branch Reports and Congressional Notifications

    Statutory reporting requirements, and the reports submitted 
in response to them, constitute one of the oldest information 
systems used by Congress. On every subject Congress covers, 
required reports offer a way to oversee and review the 
implementation of legislation by the executive branch.
    In the foreign policy field, it is particularly important 
to ensure that reporting requirements and the resultant reports 
submitted by the executive branch are an efficient mechanism 
for supplying Congress with information. Information on 
domestic problems is often easier to obtain from sources 
outside the executive branch than information on problems from 
abroad. Moreover, the executive branch has sometimes attempted 
to shield its activities in the foreign policy field from 
public view and treat it as its exclusive domain. The lack of 
information on foreign policy problems and executive branch 
activities has been one of the major reasons it has been more 
difficult for Congress to play its legitimate role in the 
making of foreign policy, although the Constitution expressly 
shares such powers between Congress and the President.
    For the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the improvement of 
the system of required reports offers more than tidier 
housekeeping. It offers another step toward a better supply of 
information that Congress needs to make foreign policy 
decisions. Through the careful placing of reporting 
requirements in legislation, the patient monitoring of the 
reports submitted by the executive branch in response to the 
requirements and utilization of the data supplied in them, 
Congress can improve its capacity for an effective foreign 
policy role.
    Committee staff also conducts a regular and robust review 
of congressional notifications regarding the proposed 
obligation or reprogramming of funding for various program 
activities by our agencies of jurisdiction. During the 
reporting period, the committee has received 464 notifications 
from the Department of State, 204 from the United States Agency 
for International Development, 94 from the Defense Security 
Cooperation Agency, 47 from the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, 46 from the Department of Defense, 11 from the 
Millennium Challenge Corporation, 9 from the United States 
Trade and Development Agency, 2 from the Broadcasting Board of 
Governors, and 1 from the Federal Communications Commission.
    During the first session, the committee also conducted a 
detailed review of the December 2012 report of the Department 
of State Accountability Review Board (ARB), convened in the 
aftermath of the September 11-12, 2012, terrorist attack on 
United States facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that claimed the 
lives of four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher 
Stevens. The extensive committee investigation involved two 
public hearings of the full committee focused specifically on 
that topic, as well as legislative proposals to improve 
security at overseas diplomatic facilities and to reform the 
ARB process.

                         B. Reference Documents

    Periodically the Committee on Foreign Affairs compiles, 
prints, and distributes official documents which are useful to 
the membership in exercising the oversight function as well as 
other responsibilities. These include the Legislation on 
Foreign Relations. This 5-volume set is prepared under the 
direction of the staff of the House Committee on Foreign 
Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations with the 
assistance of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division 
of the Congressional Research Service of the Library of 
Congress. This collection of laws and related materials 
contains texts referred to by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
and the Foreign Relations Committee, amended to date, and 
annotated to show pertinent history or cross references. The 
collection includes all laws concerning foreign relations, 
codified and in force, treaties in force, as well as executive 
agreements and orders, State Department regulations and State 
Department delegations of authorities.

 C. Study Missions and Participation in International Conferences and 
                                 Events

    The committee has kept itself informed of the latest 
developments in foreign affairs. The usual frequent conferences 
with senior government officials, both civil and military, have 
been augmented by special study missions to various parts of 
the world to obtain firsthand knowledge of the problems of 
foreign countries and the administration of U.S. programs and 
operations falling within the purview of the committee. 
Committee members also have been designated to serve as 
official delegates to a number of international conferences and 
events.
    In addition, members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
participated in the following interparliamentary exchanges 
during the first session of the 113th Congress:

          May 17-20, 2013, Spring Session of NATO PA in 
        Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

          May 31-June 1, 2013, 74th Meeting of the 
        Transatlantic Legislators Dialogue in Dublin, Ireland.

          November 14-16, 2013, Meeting of the British 
        American Parliamentary Group in Washington, DC.

          November 21-23, 2013, 51st Annual Mexico-U.S. 
        Interparliamentary Group in Mexico City, Mexico.

                  III. SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY


                  A. Full Committee Markup Summaries 
         (subcommittee markups are listed in section IV, below)


            5/22/13 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary

    The chair called up H.R. 850, the Nuclear Iran Prevention 
Act of 2013, for consideration by the committee. By unanimous 
consent, the Royce amendment in the nature of a substitute 
(previously provided to members of the committee) was 
considered the base text.
    1) The following amendments (also previously provided to 
members of the committee) were considered en bloc and agreed to 
by voice vote:

           1. Connolly/Ros-Lehtinen 39
           2. Cotton 4A
           3. Cotton/Kennedy/Schneider 20
           4. Deutch 22
           5. Deutch 23
           6. Deutch 25
           7. Duncan 16
           8. Frankel 3
           9. Grayson 101
          10. Grayson 103
          11. Grayson 108
          12. Grayson 110
          13. Marino 19
          14. Poe 38
          15. Ros-Lehtinen 18
          16. Schneider 2
          17. Sherman 74
          18. Sherman 75
          19. Sherman 76
          20. Sherman 7
          21. Royce 22

    2) Chairman Royce offered an amendment, Royce 1, that was 
withdrawn, but later offered as Royce/Engel/Cotton/Sherman 23--
agreed to by voice vote
          a.  Rep. Cicilline offered a 2nd degree amendment to 
        Royce 1--withdrawn
          b.  Rep. Grayson offered a 2nd degree amendment to 
        Royce 1--withdrawn
    3) Rep. Grayson offered an amendment, Grayson 109--agreed 
to by voice vote, as amended
    4) Rep. Cotton offered an amendment, Cotton 2--agreed to by 
voice vote
    5) Rep. Grayson offered an amendment, Grayson 102--
withdrawn
    6) Rep. Cotton offered an amendment, Cotton 7--withdrawn
    7) Rep. Grayson offered an amendment, Grayson 104--agreed 
to by voice vote
    8) Rep. Grayson offered an amendment, Grayson 111--agreed 
to by voice vote
    9) Rep. Grayson offered an amendment, Grayson 106--agreed 
to by voice vote

    The Royce amendment in the nature of a substitute, as 
amended, was agreed to by voice vote. By unanimous consent, 
H.R. 850, as amended, was ordered favorably reported to the 
House, and the chair was authorized to seek consideration of 
the bill under suspension of the rules.
    The committee adjourned.

            6/27/13 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary

    The chair called up the following measures for 
consideration by the committee. By unanimous consent, the four 
measures and two amendments (previously provided to members of 
the committee) were considered en bloc:

    1. H.R. 1897 (Smith-NJ), ``Vietnam Human Rights Act of 
2013.''
    2. H. Res. 131 (Bass), ``Concerning the ongoing conflict in 
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the need for 
international efforts toward long-term peace, stability, and 
observance of human rights.''
          a.  As amended by Bass 11 (amendment in the nature of 
        a substitute offered by Rep. Bass).
    3. H. Res. 273 (Royce/Engel), ``Expressing the sense of the 
House of Representatives that the President should nominate a 
qualified and independent individual for the position of 
Inspector General of the Department of State and Broadcasting 
Board of Governors to be confirmed by the Senate without 
delay.''
    4. H. Res. 222 (Meeks), ``Recognizing the long-term 
partnership and friendship between the United States and the 
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, working together towards peace and 
security in the Middle East.''
          a.  As amended by Meeks 11 (amendment in the nature 
        of a substitute offered by Rep. Meeks).

    The measures and respective amendments were adopted by 
voice vote. By unanimous consent, the measures (as amended) 
were ordered favorably reported to the House.
    The committee adjourned.

            7/24/13 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary

    The chair called up the following measures for 
consideration by the committee. By unanimous consent, the four 
measures and four amendments (previously provided to members of 
the committee) were considered en bloc:

    1. H.R. 2449 (Royce), ``To authorize the President to 
extend the term of the Agreement for Cooperation between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government 
of the Republic of Korea Concerning Civil Uses of Nuclear 
Energy for a period not to exceed March 19, 2016.''
    2. H.R. 1409 (Engel), ``To amend the Export Enhancement Act 
of 1988 to further enhance the promotion of exports of United 
States goods and services, and for other purposes.''
          a.  As amended by Royce 319 (amendment in the nature 
        of a substitute offered by Chairman Royce).
    3. H.R. 1926 (Chabot), ``To further enhance the promotion 
of exports of United States goods and services, and for other 
purposes.''
          a.  As amended by Royce ANS (amendment in the nature 
        of a substitute offered by Chairman Royce).
    4. S. 793 (Menendez), ``A bill to support revitalization 
and reform of the Organization of American States, and for 
other purposes.''
          a.  As amended by Royce-Engel 763 (amendment in the 
        nature of a substitute offered by Chairman Royce and 
        Ranking Member Engel).
                  a1.  Royce 2nd degree amendment to the Royce-
                Engel ANS.

    The measures and respective amendments were adopted by 
voice vote. By unanimous consent, the measures (as amended) 
were ordered favorably reported to the House.
    The committee adjourned.

            8/1/13 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary

    The chair called up the following measures:

    1. H.R. 419 (Ros-Lehtinen), ``To strengthen and clarify the 
commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of 
the United States and the people of Taiwan, as codified in the 
Taiwan Relations Act, and for other purposes.''
          a.  By unanimous consent, Ros-Lehtinen 27, an 
        amendment in the nature of a substitute (previously 
        provided to members of the committee) was considered 
        the base text.
                  1)  Grayson 198, a second degree amendment to 
                Ros-Lehtinen 27 (previously provided to members 
                of the committee) was agreed to by unanimous 
                consent.

    H.R. 419, as amended by Ros-Lehtinen 27 and Grayson 198, 
was agreed to by voice vote and ordered favorably reported to 
the House by unanimous consent.

    2. H.R. 2848 (Royce-Engel), ``Department of State 
Operations and Embassy Security Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 
2014.''
    By unanimous consent, the Manager called up the following 
amendments (also previously provided to members of the 
committee) to be considered en bloc and which were agreed to by 
voice vote:

           1) Keating 8
           2) Cicilline 23
           3) McCaul 30
           4) Marino 27
           5) Stockman 8
           6) Smith 33
           7) Cicilline-Bass
           8) Perry-Meng 18
           9) Grayson 197
          10) Duncan 23
          11) Royce 49

    H.R. 2848, as amended, was agreed to by voice vote and 
ordered favorably reported to the House by unanimous consent.
    The committee adjourned.

           10/10/13 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary

    The chair called up H.R. 3212 (Smith (NJ)), ``Sean and 
David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and 
Return Act of 2013.''
          1)  Mr. Grayson offered an amendment (Grayson 206) 
        which was agreed to by voice vote.

    H.R. 3212, as amended by Grayson 206, was agreed to by 
voice vote, and ordered favorably reported to the House by 
unanimous consent.
    The committee adjourned.

           11/20/13 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary

    The chair called up the following measures for 
consideration by the committee. By unanimous consent, the 
following six measures and six amendments (previously provided 
to members of the committee) were considered en bloc:

    1. H. Res. 147 (Cassidy), ``Calling for the release of 
United States citizen Saeed Abedini and condemning the 
Government of Iran for its persecution of religious 
minorities.''
          a.  As amended by Smith 40 (amendment in the nature 
        of a substitute offered by Mr. Smith).
    2. H. Res. 402 (Engel), ``Supporting the European 
aspirations of the peoples of the European Union's Eastern 
Partnership countries, and for other purposes.''
          a.  As amended by Engel 46 (amendment in the nature 
        of a substitute offered by Mr. Engel).
    3. H. Res. 404 (Royce-Engel), ``Expressing condolences and 
support for assistance to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan which 
made landfall in the Republic of the Philippines on November 8, 
2013.''
          a.  As amended by Royce 64 (amendment in the nature 
        of a substitute offered by Chairman Royce).
    4. H.R. 1992 (Collins-GA), ``Israel QME Enhancement Act.''
          a.  As amended by Collins 29 (amendment in the nature 
        of a substitute offered by Mr. Collins-GA).
    5. H.R. 3470 (Royce-Engel), ``The Naval Vessel Transfer and 
Arms Export Control Amendments Act of 2013.''
    6. H.R. 3509 (Lee-Royce-Engel), ``Assessing Progress in 
Haiti Act of 2013.''
          a.  As amended by Royce 63; and
          b.  As amended by Salmon 29.

    The measures and respective amendments were adopted by 
voice vote. By unanimous consent, the measures (as amended) 
were ordered favorably reported to the House.
    The committee adjourned.

                       B. Committee Reports Filed

    House Report: 113-177: The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to 
whom was referred the bill (H.R. 850) to impose additional 
human rights and economic and financial sanctions with respect 
to Iran, and for other purposes, having considered the same, 
reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that 
the bill as amended do pass.
    House Report: 113-209: The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to 
whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2449) to authorize the 
President to extend the term of the Agreement for Cooperation 
between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of the Republic of Korea Concerning Civil Uses of 
Nuclear Energy for a period not to exceed March 19, 2016, 
having considered the same, report favorably thereon without 
amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
    House Report 113-226: The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to 
whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2848) to authorize 
appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal year 
2014, and for other purposes, having considered the same, 
reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that 
the bill as amended do pass.

         C. Foreign Affairs Legislation Considered by the House

    Because further action on these measures--such as Senate 
passage and enactment into law--is possible subsequent to the 
filing of this report, readers should consult the official 
records from the 113th Congress to determine the final 
disposition of measures not enacted into law as of the date of 
this report.

Legislation Enacted into Law

    H.R. 1151 (Royce)--To direct the Secretary of State to 
develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan at the 
triennial International Civil Aviation Organization Assembly, 
and for other purposes. [Became Public Law 113-17.]
    H.R. 3233 (Blumenauer)--To extend the period during which 
Iraqis who were employed by the United States Government in 
Iraq may be granted special immigrant status and to temporarily 
increase the fee or surcharge for processing machine-readable 
nonimmigrant visas. [Became Public Law 113-42.]
    S. 793 (Menendez)--Organization of American States 
Revitalization and Reform Act of 2013. [Became Public Law 113-
41.]
    S. 1545 (Menendez)--To extend authorities related to global 
HIV/AIDS and to promote oversight of United States programs. 
[Became Public Law 113-56.]

Legislation Passed by the House and Senate

    H. Con. Res. 41 (Rangel)--Encouraging peace and 
reunification on the Korean Peninsula.

Legislation Passed by the House

    H.R. 301 (Wolf)--To provide for the establishment of the 
Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom of Religious 
Minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia.
    H.R. 850 (Royce)--Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013.
    H.R. 1151 (Royce)--To direct the Secretary of State to 
develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan at the 
triennial International Civil Aviation Organization Assembly, 
and for other purposes .
    H.R.1613 (Duncan)--Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary 
Hydrocarbon Agreements Authorization Act.
    H.R. 1897 (Smith-NJ)--Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2013.
    H.R. 1992 (Collins)--To amend the requirements relating to 
assessment of Israel's qualitative military edge over military 
threats, and for other purposes.
    H.R. 2449 (Royce)--To authorize the President to extend the 
term of the Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of 
the United States of America and the Government of the Republic 
of Korea Concerning Civil Uses of Nuclear Energy for a period 
not to exceed March 19, 2016.
    H.R. 2848 (Royce)--Department of State Operations and 
Embassy Security Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2014.
    H.R. 3102 (Lucas)--Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity 
Act of 2013.
    H.R. 3212 (Smith-NJ)--To ensure compliance with the 1980 
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child 
Abduction by countries with which the United States enjoys 
reciprocal obligations, to establish procedures for the prompt 
return of children abducted to other countries, and for other 
purposes.
    H.R. 3233 (Blumenauer)--To extend the period during which 
Iraqis who were employed by the United States Government in 
Iraq may be granted special immigrant status and to temporarily 
increase the fee or surcharge for processing machine-readable 
nonimmigrant visas.
    H.R. 3509 (Lee-CA)--To direct the Secretary of State to 
submit to Congress a report on the status of post-earthquake 
recovery and development efforts in Haiti.
    H. Con. Res. 41 (Rangel)--Encouraging peace and 
reunification on the Korean Peninsula.
    H. Res. 65 (Royce)--Condemning the Government of North 
Korea for its flagrant and repeated violations of multiple 
United Nations Security Council resolutions, for its repeated 
provocations that threaten international peace and stability, 
and for its February 12, 2013, test of a nuclear device.
    H. Res. 222 (Meeks)--Recognizing the long-term partnership 
and friendship between the United States and the Hashemite 
Kingdom of Jordan, working together towards peace and security 
in the Middle East.
    H. Res. 434 (Bass)--Honoring the life, accomplishments, and 
legacy of Nelson Mandela and expressing condolences on his 
passing.
    S. 793 (Menendez)--Organization of American States 
Revitalization and Reform Act of 2013.

          IV. MEETINGS OF THE FULL COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMITTEES

    Pursuant to the Oversight Plan set forth in Section I(d), 
above, the committee and its subcommittees have maintained an 
ambitious schedule of hearings, briefings, markups, and other 
meetings during the period covered by this report, as set forth 
below (full committee markups, listed in section III (A) 
above).

                           A. Full Committee

    January 23, 2013--Terrorist Attack in Benghazi: The 
Secretary of State's View. The Honorable Hillary Rodham 
Clinton, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State.
    February 14, 2013--The Crisis in Mali: U.S. Interests and 
the International Response. The Honorable Johnnie Carson, 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department 
of State; Ms. Amanda Dory, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
African Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. 
Department of Defense.
    March 5, 2013--North Korea's Criminal Activities: Financing 
the Regime. David Asher, Ph.D., Non-Resident Senior Fellow, 
Center for a New American Security, Former Senior Adviser, East 
Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Coordinator, North Korea Working 
Group, U.S. Department of State; Sung-Yoon Lee, Ph.D., 
Assistant Professor in Korean Studies, The Fletcher School of 
Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; The Honorable Joseph R. 
DeTrani, President, Intelligence and National Security 
Alliance, Former Director, National Counter Proliferation 
Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
    March 20, 2013--Crisis in Syria: The U.S. Response. The 
Honorable Robert S. Ford, American, Ambassador to Syria; The 
Honorable Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau for 
Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State; 
The Honorable Nancy E. Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, 
Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, 
United States Agency for International Development.
    April 17, 2013--Securing U.S. Interests Abroad: The FY 2014 
Foreign Affairs Budget. The Honorable John F. Kerry, Secretary 
of State, U.S. Department of State.
    April 24, 2013--Export Control Reform: The Agenda Ahead. 
Mr. Thomas Kelly, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 
Political-Military Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The 
Honorable Kevin J. Wolf, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. 
Department of Commerce; Mr. James A. Hursch, Director, Defense 
Technology Security Administration, U.S. Department of Defense.
    April 25, 2013--The FY 2014 Budget Request: U.S. Foreign 
Assistance Priorities and Strategy. The Honorable Rajiv Shah, 
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; The 
Honorable Daniel W. Yohannes, Chief Executive Officer, 
Millennium Challenge Corporation.
    May 7, 2013--Local and Private Sector Initiatives to Combat 
International Human Trafficking. Mr. Don Knabe, Supervisor, 
Fourth District, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; Mr. 
Bradley Myles, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, 
Polaris Project; Shawn MacDonald, Ph.D., Director of Programs 
and Research, Verite.
    May 15, 2013--Preventing a Nuclear Iran. The Honorable 
Wendy R. Sherman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, U.S. 
Department of State; The Honorable David S. Cohen, Under 
Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. 
Department of the Treasury.
    May 21, 2013--The Call for Economic Liberty in the Arab 
World. Mr. Hernando de Soto President, Institute for Liberty 
and Democracy; The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright, Chairman, 
Albright Stonebridge Group.
    June 12, 2013--Modernizing U.S. International Food Aid: 
Reaching More for Less. The Honorable Andrew Natsios, Executive 
Professor, The George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public 
Service, Texas A&M University (former Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development); The 
Honorable Dan Glickman, Executive Director, Aspen Institute 
Congressional Program (former Secretary of Agriculture).
    June 26, 2013--Broadcasting Board of Governors: An Agency 
``Defunct''. The Honorable James K. Glassman, Founding 
Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute (former Chairman 
of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and Former Under 
Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs); 
The Honorable S. Enders Wimbush, Executive Director for 
Strategy & Development, National Bureau of Asian Research 
(former Governor of the Broadcasting Board of Governors); The 
Honorable D. Jeff Hirschberg, Chairman, The Northeast Maglev, 
LLC (former Governor of the Broadcasting Board of Governors).
    September 4, 2013--Syria: Weighing the Obama 
Administration's Response. The Honorable John F. Kerry, 
Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable 
Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense; 
General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 
U.S. Department of Defense.
    September 18, 2013--Benghazi: Where is the State Department 
Accountability? The Honorable Patrick F. Kennedy, Under 
Secretary for Management, U.S. Department of State.
    October 3, 2013--Al-Shabaab: How Great a Threat?. Seth 
Jones, Ph.D., Associate Director, International Security and 
Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation; Mr. Dan Borelli, Chief 
Operating Officer, The Soufan Group; Mr. Mohamed Farah, 
Executive Director, Ka Joog; Mr. Richard Downie, Deputy 
Director and Fellow, Africa Program, Center for Strategic and 
International Studies.
    October 9, 2013--Haiti: Is U.S. Aid Effective? Mr. David B. 
Gootnick, Director, International Affairs and Trade, U.S. 
Government Accountability Office; Mr. Thomas C. Adams, Haiti 
Special Coordinator, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Elizabeth 
Hogan, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America 
and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development.
    October 29, 2013--Next Steps on Egypt Policy. The Honorable 
A. Elizabeth Jones, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near 
East Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Derek 
Chollet, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International 
Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense; Ms. Alina 
Romanowski, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the 
Middle East, U.S. Agency for International Development.
    November 4, 2013--Regional Perspectives in the Global Fight 
Against Human Trafficking. The Honorable Luis CdeBaca, 
Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 
in Persons, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Tony 
Rackauckas, District Attorney, Orange County, Office of the 
Orange County District Attorney; Ms. Kay Buck, Executive 
Director and Chief Executive Officer, Coalition to Abolish 
Slavery and Trafficking; Ms. Angela Guanzon, Survivor of 
International Trafficking, Member, CAST Survivor Advisory 
Caucus and National Survivor Network; Ms. Carissa Phelps, Chief 
Executive Officer, Runaway Girl, FPC.
    November 13, 2013--Examining Nuclear Negotiations: Iran 
After Rouhani's First 100 Days. Mr. Mark Dubowitz, Executive 
Director, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Ms. Danielle 
Pletka, Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, 
American Enterprise Institute; Mr. Colin Kahl, Associate 
Professor, Georgetown University.
    December 10, 2013--The Iran Nuclear Deal: Does It Further 
U.S. National Security?. The Honorable John F. Kerry, Secretary 
of State, U.S. Department of State.
    December 11, 2013--Afghanistan 2014: Year of Transition. 
The Honorable James F. Dobbins, Special Representative for 
Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Donald 
L. Sampler, Assistant to the Administrator, Office of 
Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for International 
Development; Mr. Michael J. Dumont, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of Defense Afghanistan, Pakistan, & Central Asia, U.S. 
Department of Defense.

  B. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
                      International Organizations

    February 5, 2013--Fighting for Internet Freedom: Dubai and 
Beyond. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Communications 
and Technology of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the 
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.) The 
Honorable Robert M. McDowell, Commissioner Federal 
Communications Commission; The Honorable Bitange Ndemo, 
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and 
Communications, Government of Kenya; The Honorable David A. 
Gross (former Coordinator of International Communications and 
Information Policy, U.S. Department of State); Ms. Sally 
Shipman Wentworth, Senior Manager of Public Policy, Internet 
Society; and Mr. Harold Feld, Senior Vice President, Public 
Knowledge.
    February 27, 2013--Anti-Semitism: A Growing Threat to All 
Faiths. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., President, American Islamic Forum 
for Democracy; Katrina Lantos Swett, Ph.D., Chair, U.S. 
Commission on International Religious Freedom; Ms. Elisa 
Massimino, President and Chief Executive Officer, Human Rights 
First; Mr. John Garvey, President, The Catholic University of 
America; Mr. Eric Metaxas, Author and Commentator; Rabbi Andrew 
Baker, Personal Representative on Combating Anti-Semitism, 
Office of the Chairperson-in-Office, Organization for Security 
and Co-operation in Europe; Tamas Fellegi, Ph.D., Managing 
Partner, EuroAtlantic Solutions (former Minister of National 
Development, Government of Hungary); Rabbi David Meyer, 
Professor of Rabbinic Literature and Contemporary Jewish 
Thought, Pontifical Gregorian University; Mr. Willy 
Silberstein, Chairman, Swedish Committee Against Anti-Semitism; 
Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Kiev and Ukraine; and Mr. 
Andrew Srulevitch, Director of European Affairs, Anti-
Defamation League.
    April 9, 2013--Chen Guangcheng and Gao Zhisheng: Human 
Rights in China. Mr. Chen Guangcheng, Chinese human rights 
activist; Pastor Bob Fu, Founder and President, ChinaAid 
Association; Ms. Geng He, wife of Chinese human rights lawyer 
Gao Zhisheng; Mr. Jared Genser, Founder, Freedom Now; and Mr. 
T. Kumar, Director of International Advocacy, Amnesty 
International.
    April 11, 2013--Highlighting Vietnamese Government Human 
Rights Violations in Advance of the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue. The 
Honorable Anh ``Joseph'' Cao (former Member of Congress); Mr. 
Vo Van Ai, President, Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and Que 
Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam; Ms. Anna Buonya, 
Spokesperson, Montagnard Human Rights Organization; Ms. Hui 
Danh, Sister of a victim of human trafficking; Mr. Tien Tran, 
Victim of religious persecution at the Con Dau Parish; and Mr. 
John Sifton, Advocacy Director for Asia, Human Rights Watch.
    April 16, 2013--Kenya's 2013 Elections: An Effective 
Assistance Model? Mr. Paul Fagan, Regional Director for Africa, 
International Republican Institute; Keith Jennings, Ph.D., 
Senior Associate and Regional Director for Southern and East 
Africa, National Democratic Institute; and Mr. Bill Sweeney, 
President and Chief Executive Officer, International Foundation 
for Electoral Systems.
    April 18, 2013--Tier Rankings in the Fight Against Human 
Trafficking. The Honorable Mark Lagon, International Relations 
and Security Chair, Master of Science in Foreign Service 
Program, Georgetown University (former Ambassador-at-Large for 
Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State); Nguyen Dinh 
Thang, Ph.D., Executive Director, Boat People SOS; Ms. Suzanne 
Scholte, President, North Korea Freedom Coalition; Mr. Brian 
Campbell, Director of Policy and Legal Programs, International 
Labor Rights Forum; Ms. Esther Choe, Victim of human 
trafficking; Mr. David Abramowitz, Vice President, Policy & 
Government Relations, Humanity United; and Ms. Carol Smolenski, 
Executive Director, End Child Prostitution and Child 
Trafficking-USA.
    April 23, 2013--Meeting the Challenge of Drug-Resistant 
Diseases in Developing Countries. Tom Frieden, M.D., Director, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    May 7, 2013--Increasing American Jobs through Greater 
Exports to Africa. Mr. Stephen Lande, President, Manchester 
Trade; Mr. Peter C. Hansen, Principal Counsel, Law Offices of 
Peter C. Hansen, LLC; Sharon T. Freeman, Ph.D., President and 
Chief Executive Officer, All American Small Business Exporters 
Association; and Ms. Barbara Keating, President and Founder, 
Computer Frontiers.
    May 9, 2013--Resolving International Parental Child 
Abductions to Non-Hague Convention Countries. The Honorable 
Susan Jacobs, Special Advisor for Children's Issues, Bureau of 
Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Patricia Apy, 
Attorney, Paras, Apy & Reiss, P.C.; Ms. Bindu Philips, Mother 
of Children Abducted to India; Mr. Colin Bower, Father of 
Children Abducted to Egypt; Mr. Michael Elias, Father of 
Children Abducted to Japan; and Mr. David Goldman, Father of 
Child Abducted to Brazil.
    May 15, 2013--Markup of H.R. 1951, To ensure compliance 
with the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of 
International Child Abduction by countries with which the 
United States enjoys reciprocal obligations, to establish 
procedures for the prompt return of children abducted to other 
countries, and for other purposes; H.R. 1897, To promote 
freedom and democracy in Vietnam; and H. Res. 131, Concerning 
the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 
and the need for international efforts toward long-term peace, 
stability, and observance of human rights.
    May 15, 2013--Recent Developments in the Investigation of 
the Murder of Human Rights Attorney Patrick Finucane. Mr. 
Michael Finucane, son of slain human rights attorney Patrick 
Finucane; and Brigadier General James P. Cullen, USA, Retired, 
Human rights attorney.
    May 17, 2013--The U.S. Contribution to the Fight Against 
Malaria. Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer, U.S. Global Malaria 
Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative; and Colonel Peter 
J. Weina, Ph.D., M.D., Deputy Commander, Walter Reed Army 
Institute of Research, U.S. Department of Defense. The 
Honorable Mark Dybul, Executive Director, The Global Fund to 
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
    May 20, 2013--Advocating for American Jacob Ostreicher's 
Freedom after Two Years in Bolivian Detention. Mr. Sean Penn, 
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, J/P Haitian Relief 
Organization.
    May 21, 2013--The Growing Crisis in Africa's Sahel Region. 
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Middle East and 
North Africa and the Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Nonproliferation, and Trade.) The Honorable Donald Y. Yamamoto, 
Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs, 
U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Nancy E. Lindborg, 
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and 
Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International 
Development; Mr. Rudolph Atallah, Senior Fellow, Michael S. 
Ansari Africa Center, Atlantic Council; Mima S. Nedelcovych, 
Ph.D., Partner, Schaffer Global Group; and Mr. Nii Akuetteh 
(former Georgetown University Professor of African Affairs).
    June 3, 2013--Tragic Anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen 
Square Protests and Massacre. Mr. Wei Jingsheng, President, Wei 
Jingsheng Foundation; Ms. Chai Ling, Founder, All Girls 
Allowed; Yang Jianli, Ph.D., President, Initiatives for China; 
David Aikman, Ph.D. (former Time magazine Bureau Chief in 
Beijing); and Sophie Richardson, Ph.D., China Director, Human 
Rights Watch.
    June 4, 2013--Continuing Repression by the Vietnamese 
Government. The Honorable Anh ``Joseph'' Cao (former Member of 
Congress); Nguyen Dinh Thang, Ph.D., Executive Director, Boat 
People SOS; The Venerable Danh Tol, Victim of religious 
persecution; Ms. Holly Ngo, Victim of property confiscation; 
and Mr. John Sifton, Asia Advocacy Director, Human Rights 
Watch.
    June 20, 2013--Ethiopia After Meles: The Future of 
Democracy and Human Rights. The Honorable Donald Y. Yamamoto, 
Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs, 
U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Earl W. Gast, Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau for Africa, U.S. Agency for International 
Development; Berhanu Nega, Ph.D., Associate Professor of 
Economics, Bucknell University; J. Peter Pham, Ph.D., Director, 
Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, Atlantic Council; Mr. Obang 
Metho, Executive Director, Solidarity Movement for a New 
Ethiopia; and Mr. Adotei Akwei, Managing Director for 
Government Relations, Amnesty International USA.
    June 25, 2013--Religious Minorities in Syria: Caught in the 
Middle. Mr. Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 
of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of 
State; Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., Commissioner, U.S. Commission on 
International Religious Freedom; Rev. Majed El Shafie, Founder, 
One Free World International; John Eibner, Ph.D., Chief 
Executive Officer, Christian Solidarity International, USA; and 
Ms. Nina Shea, Director, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson 
Institute.
    June 27, 2013--Addressing the Neglected Diseases Treatment 
Gap. Lee Hall, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Parasitology and 
International Programs Branch, Division of Microbiology and 
Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and 
Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services; Jesse Goodman, M.D., 
Chief Scientist, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department 
of Health and Human Services; Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., 
President, Sabin Vaccine Institute; Jay Siegel, M.D., Chief 
Biotechnology Officer and Head of Scientific Strategy and 
Policy, Johnson & Johnson; and Alix Zwane, Ph.D., Executive 
Director, Evidence Action.
    July 11, 2013--The State Department 2013 Trafficking in 
Persons Report. The Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-
Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, 
U.S. Department of State.
    July 18, 2013--Is There an African Resource Curse?. Ms. 
Corinna Gilfillan, Director, Global Witness, USA; Mr. Mohammed 
Amin Adam, Executive Director, Africa Centre for Energy Policy; 
Mr. Anquan Boldin, Ambassador, Oxfam America; and Mr. Tutu 
Alicante, Executive Director, EG Justice.
    August 1, 2013--The Impact of U.S. Water Programs on Global 
Health. The Honorable Christian Holmes, Global Water 
Coordinator, U.S. Agency for International Development; Aaron 
A. Salzberg, Ph.D., Special Coordinator for Water Resources, 
U.S. Department of State; Mr. John Oldfield, Chief Executive 
Officer, WASH Advocates; Mr. Malcolm Morris, Chairman, 
Millennium Water Alliance; and Mr. Buey Ray Tut, Executive 
Director, Aqua Africa.
    September 10, 2013--India's Missing Girls. Matthew J. 
Connelly, Ph.D., Professor, Columbia University; Sabu George, 
Ph.D., Independent researcher; Ms. Jill McElya, Vice President, 
Invisible Girl Project; Ms. Mallika Dutt, President and Chief 
Executive Officer, Breakthrough.
    September 12, 2013--The Troubling Path Ahead for U.S.-
Zimbabwe Relations. Shannon Smith, Ph.D., Deputy Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; 
Mr. Todd Amani, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau 
for Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr. 
Arthur Gwagwa, International Advocacy Coordinator, Zimbabwe 
Human Rights NGO Forum; Ms. Imani Countess, Regional Program 
Director for Africa, The Solidarity Center.
    October 29, 2013--Guo Feixiong and Freedom of Expression in 
China. Ms. Zhang Qing, wife of Guo Feixiong; Ms. Yang Tianjiao, 
daughter of Guo Feixiong; Pastor Bob Fu, Founder and President, 
ChinaAid Association; Mr. Chen Guangcheng, Chinese human rights 
activist, Appearing via videoconference; Mr. T. Kumar, Director 
of International Advocacy, Amnesty International.
    October 30, 2013--Joint Subcommittee Hearing: Establishing 
a Syrian War Crimes Tribunal?. Mr. David M. Crane, Professor of 
Practice, Syracuse University College of Law, Former Chief 
Prosecutor, United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone; Alan 
White, Ph.D., President, AW Associates, Former Chief 
Investigator, United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone; 
The Honorable Jeremy Rabkin, Professor of Law, George Mason 
University School of Law; The Honorable Stephen G. Rademaker, 
National Security Project Advisor, Bipartisan Policy Center; 
Mr. Richard Dicker, Director, International Justice Program, 
Human Rights Watch.
    November 13, 2013--The Continuing Threat of Boko Haram. The 
Honorable Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau 
of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Emmanuel 
Ogebe, Managing Partner, U.S.-Nigeria Law Group; Mr. Habila 
Adamu, Survivor of violence by Boko Haram; Mr. Jacob Zenn, 
Research Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation; Guy Nkem Nzeribe, 
Ph.D, Partner, Guy Nzeribe Associates.
    November 19, 2013--Crisis in the Central African Republic. 
The Honorable Robert P. Jackson, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; 
The Most Reverend Nestor-Desire Nongo-Aziagbia, Roman Catholic 
Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic; Mr. Mike 
Jobbins, Senior Programme Manager, Africa, Search for Common 
Ground; Mr. Philippe Bolopion, United Nations Director, Human 
Rights Watch.
    November 21, 2013--The Global Challenge of Alzheimer's: The 
G-8 Dementia Summit and Beyond. Andrea Pfeifer, Ph.D., Chief 
Executive Officer, AC Immune, Appearing via videoconference; 
Mr. George Vradenburg, Chairman and Founder, 
USAgainstAlzheimer's; Mr. Matthew Baumgart, Senior Director of 
Public Policy, Alzheimer's Association.
    November 21, 2013--Markup of H.R. 1777. Increasing American 
Jobs Through Greater Exports to Africa Act of 2013.
    December 3, 2013--The U.S. Post-Typhoon Response in the 
Philippines: Health and Human Rights Issues. The Honorable 
Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, 
Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; Mr. Sean Callahan, Chief Operating 
Officer, Catholic Relief Services; Mr. Chris Palusky, Senior 
Director, Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs, World Vision.
    December 5, 2013--Their Daughters Appeal to Beijing: ``Let 
Our Fathers Go!'' Ms. Lisa Peng, daughter of Peng Ming; Ms. 
Grace Ge Geng, daughter of Gao Zhisheng; Ms. Ti-Anna Wang, 
daughter of Wang Bingzhang; Ms. Bridgette Chen, daughter of Liu 
Xianbing; Ms. Danielle Wang, daughter of Wang Zhiwen; Pastor 
Bob Fu, Founder and President, ChinaAid Association; Mr. Chen 
Guangfu, Brother of Chen Guangcheng and father of Chen Kegui; 
Devra Marcus, M.D., Physician and Activist.
    December 10, 2013--Human Rights Abuses in Egypt. Zuhdi 
Jasser, M.D., Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on International 
Religious Freedom; His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop, 
Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom; Mr. Samuel 
Tadros, Research Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson 
Institute; Morad Abou-Sabe, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Rutgers 
University, Former President of Misr University for Science & 
Technology; Mr. Tad Stahnke, Director of Policy and Programs, 
Human Rights First.
    December 12, 2013--Iran's Persecution of American Pastor 
Abedini Worsens. Katrina Lantos Swett, Ph.D., Vice Chair, U.S. 
Commission on International Religious Freedom; Ms. Naghmeh 
Abedini, wife of Pastor Saeed Abedini, Mr. Jordan Sekulow, 
Executive Director, American Center for Law and Justice.

                C. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific

    February 26, 2013--The Rebalance to Asia: Why South Asia 
Matters (Part I). Honorable Robert O. Blake, Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. 
Department of State; Mr. Joseph Y. Yun, Acting Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. 
Department of State.
    March 13, 2013--The Rebalance to Asia: Why South Asia 
Matters (Part II). Mr. Walter Lohman, Director, Asian Studies 
Center, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. Vikram Nehru, Senior 
Associate, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International 
Peace; Mr. Sadanand Dhume, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise 
Institute; and Mr. Sanjay Puri, Founder and Chief Executive 
Officer, Alliance for U.S. India Business.
    March 19, 2013--After the Withdrawal: The Way Forward in 
Afghanistan and Pakistan (Part I). (Jointly held with 
Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa.) Seth G. Jones, 
Ph.D., Associate Director, International Security and Defense 
Policy Center, RAND Corporation; Kimberly Kagan, Ph.D., 
President, Institute for the Study of War; Mr. Peter Bergen, 
Director, National Security Studies Program, The New America 
Foundation; and Daniel S. Markey, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for 
India Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations.
    April 11, 2013--Breaking the Iran, North Korea, and Syria 
Nexus. (Jointly held with Subcommittee on Middle East and North 
Africa and the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and 
Trade.) The Honorable R. James Woolsey, Chairman, Foundation 
for Defense of Democracies (former Director of the Central 
Intelligence Agency); Mr. Henry D. Sokolski, Executive 
Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (former 
Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, U.S. Department of 
Defense); Mr. David Albright, Founder and President, Institute 
for Science and International Security; and Ray Takeyh, Ph.D., 
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign 
Relations.
    April 25, 2013--Markup of H.R. 419, To strengthen and 
clarify the commercial, cultural, and other relations between 
the people of the United States and the people of Taiwan, as 
codified in the Taiwan Relations Act, and for other purposes.
    May 16, 2013--Assessing U.S. Foreign Assistance Priorities 
in East Asia and the Pacific. Mr. Joseph Y. Yun, Acting 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 
U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Nisha Biswal, Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International 
Development.
    June 5, 2013--Assessing U.S. Relations with Vietnam. Mr. 
Joseph Y. Yun, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian 
and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Daniel B. Baer, 
Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human 
Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State.
    June 27, 2013--Next Steps in the U.S.-Republic of Korea 
Alliance. (Jointly held with Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Nonproliferation, and Trade.) Mr. James P. Zumwalt, Acting 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 
U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Thomas M. Countryman, 
Assistant Secretary, International Security and 
Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State.
    July 9, 2013--Cambodia's Looming Political and Social 
Crisis. Mr. John Sifton, Director, Asia Advocacy, Human Rights 
Watch; Ms. Evi Schueller, Legal Consultant, Cambodian League 
for the Promotion of Defense of Human Rights; Mr. Patrick 
Merloe, Director, Election Programs, National Democratic 
Institute; Mr. Daniel Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer and 
Managing Director, SRP International Group.
    July 23, 2013--Asia: The Cyber Security Battleground. 
Phyllis Schneck, Ph.D., Vice President and Chief Technology 
Officer, Global Public Sector, McAfee, Inc.; Mr. James Lewis, 
Director and Senior Fellow, Technology and Public Policy 
Program, Center for Strategic International Studies; Mr. Karl 
Frederick Rauscher, Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished 
Fellow, EastWest Institute.
    September 19, 2013--Subcommittee Hearing: An Unclear 
Roadmap: Burma's Fragile Political Reforms and Growing Ethnic 
Strife. The Honorable Tom Andrews, President, United to End 
Genocide; Ms. Jennifer Quigley, Executive Director, U.S. 
Campaign for Burma; Wakar Uddin, Ph.D., Director General, The 
Arakan Rohingya Union; Mr. Ralph L. Cwerman, President, The 
Humpty Dumpty Institute.
    October 29, 2013--Joint Subcommittee Hearing: After the 
Withdrawal: The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Part 
II). Frederick W. Kagan, Ph.D., Christopher DeMuth Chair and 
Director, Critical Threats Project, American Enterprise 
Institute for Public Policy Research; General Jack Keane, USA, 
Retired, Chairman of the Board, Institute for the Study of War; 
Ms. Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, 
The Heritage Foundation; Stephen Biddle, Ph.D., Adjunct Senior 
Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations.
    November 20, 2013--Subcommittee Hearing: Bangladesh in 
Turmoil: A Nation on the Brink?. Ali Riaz, Ph.D., Public Policy 
Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Maj. General A.M.N. 
Muniruzzaman, President, Bangladesh Institute of Peace and 
Security Studies; Mr. John Sifton, Asia Advocacy Director, 
Human Rights Watch.
    December 4, 2013--Oversight of U.S. Policy Toward Burma. 
Ms. Judith Cefkin, Senior Advisor for Burma, Bureau of East 
Asia and the Pacific, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Vikram J. 
Singh, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and 
Southeast Asia, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense 
for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, U.S. Department of 
Defense; Mr. Gregory Beck, Deputy Assistant Administrator, 
Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development.
    December 11, 2013--Markup of H. Res 418 and H. Res 281. 
Urging the Government of Burma to end the persecution of the 
Rohingya people and respect internationally recognized human 
rights for all ethnic and religious minority groups within 
Burma; Expressing concern over persistent and credible reports 
of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from non-
consenting prisoners of conscience, in the People's Republic of 
China, including from large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners 
imprisoned for their religious beliefs, and members of other 
religious and ethnic minority groups.

        D. Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats

    February 27, 2013--Islamist Militant Threats to Eurasia. 
(Jointly held with Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, 
and Trade.) The Honorable Robert O. Blake, Assistant Secretary, 
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of 
State; Mr. Justin Siberell, Deputy Coordinator for Regional 
Affairs and Programs, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S. 
Department of State; Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow 
for Russian and Eurasian Studies, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. 
Jacob Zenn, Research Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation; Mr. 
Nathan Barrick, Strategic Consultant CLI Solutions; and Stephen 
J. Blank, Ph.D., Research Professor of National Security 
Affairs, U.S. Army War College.
    March 21, 2013--Cyber Attacks: An Unprecedented Threat to 
U.S. National Security. Mr. Christopher Painter, Coordinator, 
Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S. Department of 
State; Mr. Richard Bejtlich, Chief Security Officer and 
Security Services Architect, Mandiant Corporation; Mr. Greg 
Autry, Senior Economist, Coalition for a Prosperous America; 
Mr. Michael Mazza, Research Fellow, American Enterprise 
Institute; and Martin C. Libicki, Ph.D., Senior Management 
Scientist, RAND Corporation.
    April 16, 2013--China's Rapid Political and Economic 
Advances in Central Asia and Russia. Mr. John Tkacik, Jr., 
Director and Senior Fellow, International Assessment and 
Strategy Center; Rensselaer Lee, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Foreign 
Policy Research Institute; Dmitry Shlapentokh, Ph.D., Associate 
Professor, Indiana University South Bend; and Stephen J. Blank, 
Ph.D., Research Professor of National Security Affairs, U.S. 
Army War College.
    April 24, 2013--Kosovo and Serbia: A Pathway to Peace. Mr. 
Jonathan Moore, Director, Bureau of European and Eurasian 
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Shirley Cloyes 
DioGuardi, Balkan Affairs Adviser, Albanian American Civic 
League; Mr. Roland Gjoni, JD, LLM, Former Senior Legal and 
Policy Advisor to Effective Municipalities Initiative in 
Kosovo; Mr. Robert A. Churcher, Former Director, International 
Crisis Group in Prishtina; Daniel Serwer, Ph.D., Professor, 
Johns Hopkins University; and Mr. Obrad Kesic, Senior Partner, 
TSM Global Consultants, LLC.
    April 26, 2013--Islamist Extremism in Chechnya: A Threat to 
the U.S. Homeland? (Jointly held with Subcommittee on 
Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.) Mr. Paul Goble, 
Professor, Institute of World Politics; Craig Douglas Albert, 
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Georgia Regents University Augusta; 
Andranik Migranyan, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Democracy 
and Cooperation; and Sabine Freizer, Ph.D., Director, Europe 
Program International Crisis Group.
    May 8, 2013--The Threat of China's Unsafe Consumables. Mr. 
William Triplett II, author and consultant; Ms. Patty Lovera, 
Assistant Director, Food & Water Watch; Mr. Mark Kastel, Co-
Founder, The Cornucopia Institute; and Ms. Sophie Richardson, 
China Director, Human Rights Watch.
    June 26, 2013--Turkey at a Crossroads: What do the Gezi 
Park Protests Mean for Democracy in the Region? Hillel Fradkin, 
Ph.D., Director, Hudson Institute; Soner Cagaptay, Ph.D., 
Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Mr. 
Kadri Gursel, Contributing Writer to Al-Monitor; The Honorable 
James F. Jeffrey, Philip Solondz Distinguished Visiting Fellow, 
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and Kadir Ustun, 
Ph.D., Research Director, Foundation for Political, Economic, 
and Social Research (SETA).
    July 25, 2013--Emerging Threat of Resource Wars. Mr. Edward 
C. Chow, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International 
Studies; Jeffrey Mankoff, Ph.D., Deputy Director and Fellow, 
Center for Strategic and International Studies; Brigadier 
General John Adams, USA, Retired, President, Guardian Six 
Consulting, LLC; and Mr. Neil Brown, Non-Resident Fellow, 
German Marshall Fund of the United States.
    September 19, 2013--Markup of H. Res. 284, Expressing the 
sense of the House of Representatives with respect to promoting 
energy security of European allies through opening up the 
Southern Gas Corridor.
    October 30, 2013--Subcommittee Hearing: China's Maritime 
and other Geographic Threats. Perry Pickert, Ph.D., Retired 
Career Intelligence Officer; Mr. Rick Fisher, Senior Fellow, 
Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy 
Center; Mr. Steven Mosher, Director, Population Research 
Institute; Peter Sandby-Thomas, Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer of 
Political Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
    November 19, 2013--Markup of H. Res. 188, Calling upon the 
Government of Turkey to facilitate the reopening of the 
Ecumenical Patriarchate's Theological School of Halki without 
condition or further delay.

          E. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa

    February 5, 2013--The Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: 
Threatening Peace Prospects. Mr. Matthew Levitt, Ph.D., 
Director, Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, 
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Michael Rubin, 
Ph.D., Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute.
    February 26, 2013--Demonstrations in Tahrir Square: Two 
Years Later, What Has Changed? The Honorable Elliott Abrams, 
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign 
Relations; Katrina Lantos Swett, Ph.D., Chair, U.S. Commission 
on International Religious Freedom; Tamara Cofman Wittes, 
Ph.D., Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The 
Brookings Institute.
    March 19, 2013--After the Withdrawal: The Way Forward in 
Afghanistan and Pakistan (Part I). (Jointly held with the 
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.) Seth G. Jones, Ph.D., 
Associate Director, International Security and Defense Policy 
Center, RAND Corporation; Kimberly Kagan, Ph.D., President, 
Institute for the Study of War; Mr. Peter Bergen, Director, 
National Security Studies Program, The New America Foundation; 
Daniel S. Markey, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and 
South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations.
    April 11, 2013--Breaking the Iran, North Korea, and Syria 
Nexus. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Nonproliferation, and Trade and the Subcommittee on Asia and 
the Pacific.) The Honorable R. James Woolsey, Chairman, 
Foundation for Defense of Democracies (former Director of the 
Central Intelligence Agency); Mr. Henry D. Sokolski, Executive 
Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (former 
Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, U.S. Department of 
Defense); Mr. David Albright, Founder and President, Institute 
for Science and International Security; Ray Takeyh, Ph.D., 
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign 
Relations.
    May 21, 2013--The Growing Crisis in Africa's Sahel Region. 
The Honorable Donald Y. Yamamoto, Acting Assistant Secretary of 
State, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The 
Honorable Nancy E. Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau 
for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. 
Agency for International Development; Mr. Rudolph Atallah, 
Senior Fellow, Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, Atlantic 
Council; Mima S. Nedelcovych, Ph.D., Partner, Schaffer Global 
Group; Mr. Nii Akuetteh, Former Georgetown University Professor 
of African Affairs.
    May 22, 2013--The Middle East and North Africa FY 2014 
Budget: Priorities and Challenges. The Honorable Beth Jones, 
Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Near Eastern 
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Alina L. Romanowski, 
Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, 
U.S. Agency for International Development.
    June 5, 2013--A Crisis Mismanaged: Obama's Failed Syria 
Policy. Mr. Tony Badran, Research Fellow, Foundation for 
Defense of Democracies; Ms. Danielle Pletka, Vice President, 
Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise 
Institute; Jon Alterman, Ph.D., Director, Middle East Program, 
Center for Strategic and International Studies.
    June 12, 2013--American NGOs Under Threat in Morsi's Egypt. 
Mr. Lorne Craner, President, International Republican Institute 
(former Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and 
Labor); Mr. David Kramer, President, Freedom House (former 
Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor); Mr. 
Kenneth Wollack, President, National Democratic Institute; Ms. 
Joyce Barnathan, President, International Center for 
Journalists.
    June 18, 2013--Elections in Iran: The Regime Cementing its 
Control. Mr. Alireza Nader, Senior International Policy 
Analyst, RAND Corporation; Suzanne Maloney, Ph.D., The Saban 
Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution; Mr. Karim 
Sadjadpour, Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie 
Endowment for International Peace.
    June 25, 2013--Religious Minorities in Syria: Caught in the 
Middle. Mr. Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 
of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of 
State; Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., Commissioner, U.S. Commission on 
International Religious Freedom; Rev. Majed El Shafie, Founder, 
One Free World International; John Eibner, Ph.D., Chief 
Executive Officer, Christian Solidarity International, USA; Ms. 
Nina Shea, Director, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson 
Institute.
    July 9, 2013--Learning from Iraq: A Final Report from the 
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. The 
Honorable Stuart W. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector General for 
Iraq Reconstruction; The Honorable John Herbst, Director, 
Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University 
(former American Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan).
    July 10, 2013--The Terrorist Threat in North Africa: Before 
and After Benghazi. Mr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Director, 
Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization, Foundation 
for Defense of Democracies; Mr. Aaron Zelin, Richard Borow 
Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Daniel 
L. Byman, Ph.D., Professor, Security Studies Program, 
Georgetown University; Mr. Mike Lovelady, Brother of Algerian 
gas plant terrorist attack victim, Victor Lovelady.
    July 31, 2013--The Iran-Syria Nexus and its Implications 
for the Region. The Honorable John Bolton, Senior Fellow, 
American Enterprise Institute (former United States Permanent 
Representative to the United Nations); Mr. Mark Dubowitz, 
Executive Director, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; 
Daniel Brumberg, Ph.D., Senior Program Officer, Center for 
Conflict Management, United States Institute of Peace.
    August 1, 2013--Examining the State Department's Report on 
Iranian Presence in the Western Hemisphere 19 Years After AMIA 
Attack. Matthew Levitt, Ph.D., Director and Senior Fellow, 
Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, The 
Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Mr. Michael A. 
Braun, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Spectre Group 
International, LLC (former Chief of Operations, Drug 
Enforcement Agency); Eric Farnsworth, Vice President, Council 
of the Americas and Americas Society.
    September 19, 2013--Examining the Syrian Refugee Crisis. 
The Honorable Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 
Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State; 
The Honorable Nancy E. Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, 
Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, 
U.S. Agency for International Development.
    October 29, 2013--Joint Subcommittee Hearing: After the 
Withdrawal: The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Part 
II). Frederick W. Kagan, Ph.D., Christopher DeMuth Chair and 
Director, Critical Threats Project, American Enterprise 
Institute for Public Policy Research; General Jack Keane, USA, 
Retired, Chairman of the Board, Institute for the Study of War; 
Ms. Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, 
The Heritage Foundation; Stephen Biddle, Ph.D., Adjunct Senior 
Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations.
    October 30, 2013--Joint Subcommittee Hearing: Establishing 
a Syrian War Crimes Tribunal?. Mr. David M. Crane, Professor of 
Practice, Syracuse University College of Law, Former Chief 
Prosecutor, United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone; Alan 
White, Ph.D., President, AW Associates, Former Chief 
Investigator, United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone; 
The Honorable Jeremy Rabkin, Professor of Law, George Mason 
University School of Law; The Honorable Stephen G. Rademaker, 
National Security Project Advisor, Bipartisan Policy Center; 
Mr. Richard Dicker, Director, International Justice Program, 
Human Rights Watch.
    November 13, 201--Markup of H. Res. 147, Calling for the 
release of United States citizen Saeed Abedini and condemning 
the Government of Iran for its persecution of religious 
minorities.
    November 13, 2013--U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Iraq. Mr. 
Brett McGurk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq and Iran, 
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
    November 19, 2013--U.S. Policy Toward the Arabian 
Peninsula: Yemen and Bahrain. Ms. Barbara Leaf, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for the Arabian Peninsula, U.S. Department 
of State.
    December 4, 2013--Hearing: Transition at a Crossroads: 
Tunisia Three Years After the Revolution. Mr. Scott Mastic, 
Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa, International 
Republican Institute; Mr. Leslie Campbell, Senior Associate and 
Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa, National 
Democratic Institute; Mr. Bill Sweeney, President and Chief 
Executive Officer, International Foundation for Electoral 
Systems.
    December 10, 2013--Human Rights Abuses in Egypt. Zuhdi 
Jasser, M.D., Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on International 
Religious Freedom, His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop, 
Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, Mr. Samuel 
Tadros, Research Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson 
Institute; Morad Abou-Sabe, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Rutgers 
University, Former President of Misr University for Science & 
Technology; Mr. Tad Stahnke, Director of Policy and Programs, 
Human Rights First.
    December 12, 2013--Iran's Persecution of American Pastor 
Abedini Worsens. Katrina Lantos Swett, Ph.D., Vice Chair, U.S. 
Commission on International Religious Freedom;Ms. Naghmeh 
Abedini, wife of Pastor Saeed Abedini; Mr. Jordan Sekulow, 
Executive Director, American Center for Law and Justice.

       F. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade

    February 5, 2013--Fighting for Internet Freedom: Dubai and 
Beyond. (Jointly held with Subcommittee on Africa, Global 
Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations 
and the Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on 
Communications and Technology.) The Honorable Robert M. 
McDowell, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission; The 
Honorable Bitange Ndemo, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of 
Information and Communications, Government of Kenya; The 
Honorable David A. Gross, Fromder Coordinator of International 
Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of 
State; Ms. Sally Shipman Wentworth, Senior Manager, Public 
Policy, Internet Society; Mr. Harold Feld, Senior Vice 
President, Public Knowledge.
    February 27, 2013--Islamist Militant Threats to Eurasia. 
(Jointly held with Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and 
Emerging Threats.) The Honorable Robert O. Blake, Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. 
Department of State; Mr. Justin Siberell, Deputy Coordinator 
for Regional Affairs and Programs, Bureau of Counterterrorism, 
U.S. Department of State; Ariel Cohen Ph.D., Senior Research 
Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies, The Heritage 
Foundation; Mr. Jacob Zenn, Research Analyst, The Jamestown 
Foundation; Mr. Nathan Barrick, Strategic Consultant, CLI 
Solutions; Stephen J. Blank, Ph.D., Research Professor of 
National Security Affairs, U.S. Army War College.
    March 20, 2013--Hezbollah's Strategic Shift: A Global 
Terrorist Threat. Mr. Will Fulton, Iran Analyst, Critical 
Threats Project, American Enterprise Institute; Matthew Levitt, 
Ph.D., Director, Stein Program on Counterterrorism and 
Intelligence, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; 
The Honorable Roger Noriega, Founder and Managing Director, 
Vision Americas LLC.
    April 11, 2013--Breaking the Iran, North Korea, and Syria 
Nexus. (Jointly held with Subcommittee on Middle East and North 
Africa and Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.) The Honorable 
R. James Woolsey, Chairman, Foundation for Defense of 
Democracies (former Director of the Central Intelligence 
Agency); Mr. Henry D. Sokolski, Executive Director, 
Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (former Deputy for 
Nonproliferation Policy, U.S. Department of Defense); Mr. David 
Albright, Founder and President, Institute for Science and 
International Security; and Ray Takeyh, Ph.D., Senior Fellow 
for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations.
    April 25, 2013--Natural Gas Exports: Economic and 
Geopolitical Opportunities. Mr. Rob Bryngelson, Chief Executive 
Officer, Excelerate Energy; W. David Montgomery, Ph.D., Senior 
Vice President, National Economic Research Associates; Michael 
A. Levi, Ph.D., Director, Program on Energy Security and 
Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations; Mr. David Mallino 
Jr., Legislative Director, Laborers International Union of 
North America; Mr. Michael Ratner, Specialist in Energy Policy, 
Congressional Research Service.
    April 26, 2013--Islamist Extremism in Chechnya: A Threat to 
the U.S. Homeland? (Jointly held with Subcommittee on Europe, 
Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.) Mr. Paul Goble, Professor, 
Institute of World Politics; Craig Douglas Albert, Ph.D., 
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Georgia 
Regents University Augusta; Andranik Migranyan, Ph.D., 
Director, Institute for Democracy and Cooperation; Sabine 
Freizer, Ph.D., Director, Europe Program, International Crisis 
Group.
    May 21, 2013--The Growing Crisis in Africa's Sahel Region. 
(Jointly held with Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa 
and Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, 
and International Organizations.) The Honorable Donald Y. 
Yamamoto, Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of 
African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Nancy 
E. Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, 
Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; Mr. Rudolph Atallah, Senior Fellow, 
Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, Atlantic Council; Mima S. 
Nedelcovych, Ph.D., Partner, Schaffer Global Group; Mr. Nii 
Akuetteh, Former Professor of African Affairs, Georgetown 
University.
    June 26, 2013--Markup of H.R. 1409, To amend the Export 
Enhancement Act of 1988 to further enhance the promotion of 
exports of United States goods and services, and for other 
purposes. Markup of H.R. 1926, To further enhance the promotion 
of exports of United States goods and services, and for other 
purposes.
    June 27, 2013--Next Steps in the U.S.-Republic of Korea 
Alliance. (Jointly held with Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific.) Mr. James P. Zumwalt, Acting Assistant Secretary, 
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of 
State; The Honorable Thomas M. Countryman, Assistant Secretary, 
International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of 
State.
    July 10, 2013--The Terrorist Threat in North Africa: Before 
and After Benghazi. (Jointly held with Subcommittee on the 
Middle East and North Africa.) Mr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, 
Director, Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization, 
Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Mr. Aaron Zelin, Richard 
Borow Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; 
Daniel L. Byman, Ph.D., Professor, Security Studies Program, 
Georgetown University; Mr. Mike Lovelady, Brother of Algerian 
gas plant attack victim, Victor Lovelady.
    July 10, 2013--The Abu Dhabi Pre-Clearance Facility: 
Implications for U.S. Businesses and National Security. Mr. 
Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Mr. 
Nicholas E. Calio, President and CEO, Airlines for America; 
Captain Lee Moak, President, Air Line Pilots Association, 
International.
    July 18, 2013--Global al-Qaeda: Affiliates, Objectives, and 
Future Challenges. Seth Jones, Ph.D., Associate Director, 
International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND 
Corporation; Frederick W. Kagan, Ph.D., Christopher DeMuth 
Chair and Director, Critical Threats Project, American 
Enterprise Institute; Mr. Thomas Joscelyn, Senior Editor, The 
Long War Journal, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Thomas 
Hegghammer, Ph.D., Zuckerman Fellow, Center for International 
Security and Cooperation, Stanford University.
    August 1, 2013--The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Outlook and 
Opportunities. Mr. Edward F. Gerwin, Jr., President, Trade Guru 
LLC; Mr. Amgad Shehata, Vice President, International Public 
Affairs, United Parcel Service; Mr. Steven Metalitz, Counsel, 
International Intellectual Property Alliance; Ms. Celeste 
Drake, Trade and Globalization Policy Specialist, The American 
Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
    November 13, 2013--The Continuing Threat of Boko Haram. The 
Honorable Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau 
of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Emmanuel 
Ogebe, Managing Partner, U.S.-Nigeria Law Group; Mr. Habila 
Adamu, Survivor of violence by Boko Haram; Mr. Jacob Zenn, 
Research Analys, The Jamestown Foundation; Guy Nkem Nzeribe, 
Ph.D, Partner, Guy Nzeribe Associates.
    November 20, 2013--Terrorist Groups in Syria. Mr. Brian 
Michael Jenkins, Senior Adviser to the President, RAND 
Corporation; Mr. Phillip Smyth, Middle East Research Analyst, 
University of Maryland; Mr. Barak Barfi, Research Fellow, The 
New America Foundation; Mr. Andrew J. Tabler, Senior Fellow, 
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
    December 12, 2013--The Resurgence of al-Qaeda in Iraq. 
Kenneth M. Pollack, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Saban Center for 
Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution; Ms. Jessica D. 
Lewis, Research Director, Institute for the Study of War; 
Michael Knights, Ph.D., Lafer Fellow, The Washington Institute 
for Near East Policy; Daniel L. Byman, Ph.D., Professor, 
Security Studies Program, Georgetown University.

               G. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere

    February 28, 2013--Overview of U.S. Interests in the 
Western Hemisphere: Opportunities and Challenges. The Honorable 
Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western 
Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable 
Mark Feierstein, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin 
America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International 
Development.
    March 14, 2013--U.S. Energy Security: Enhancing 
Partnerships with Mexico and Canada. The Honorable Lee Terry, 
Member of Congress; Duncan Wood, Ph.D., Director, Mexico 
Institute, Wilson Center; Mr. Daniel R. Simmons, Director of 
Regulatory and State Affairs, Institute for Energy Research; 
Mr. Kyle Isakower, Vice President, Regulatory and Economic 
Policy, American Petroleum Institute; Michael Levi, Ph.D., 
Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Director of the 
Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on 
Foreign Relations.
    April 11, 2013--Energy Opportunities in Latin America and 
the Caribbean. The Honorable Carlos Pascual, Special Envoy and 
Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, U.S. Department 
of State: Mr. Matthew M. Rooney, Deputy Assistant Secretary, 
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; 
Mr. Jorge Pinon, Associate Director, Latin America and the 
Caribbean Program, Center for International Energy and 
Environment Policy; Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice President, 
Council of the Americas and Americas Society, The Honorable 
David L. Goldwyn, President and Founder, Goldwyn Global 
Strategies.
    May 23, 2013--U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation: An Overview 
of the Merida Initiative 2008-Present. Mr. John D. Feeley, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western 
Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable 
William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary, International 
Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of 
State; Ms. Elizabeth Hogan, Senior Deputy Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. 
Agency for International Development; Ms. Clare R. Seelke, 
Specialist in Latin American Affairs, Congressional Research 
Service; Mr. Steven Dudley, Director, InSight Crime; Francisco 
E. Gonzalez, Ph.D., Riordan Roett Senior Associate Professor, 
Latin American Studies, John Hopkins University School of 
Advanced International Studies.
    June 19, 2013--Regional Security Cooperation: An 
Examination of the Central American Regional Security 
Initiative (CARSI) and the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative 
(CBSI). The Honorable William R. Brownfield, Assistant 
Secretary, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, 
U.S. Department of State; Ms. Liliana Ayalde, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. 
Department of State; Mr. Mark Lopes, Deputy Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. 
Agency for International Development; Mr. Eric L. Olson, 
Associate Director, Latin America Program, Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars; Mr. Michael Shifter, 
President, Inter-American Dialogue.
    August 1, 2013--Examining the State Department's Report on 
Iranian Presence in the Western Hemisphere 19 Years After AMIA 
Attack. Matthew Levitt, Ph.D., Director and Senior Fellow, 
Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, The 
Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Mr. Michael A. 
Braun, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Spectre Group 
International, LLC, Former Chief of Operations, Drug 
Enforcement Administration; Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice 
President, Council of the Americas and Americas Society.
    September 10, 201--Challenges to Democracy in the Western 
Hemisphere. Mr. Alvaro Uribe Velez, Senior Fellow, Bipartisan 
Policy Center, Former President of the Republic of Colombia; 
Hector E. Schamis, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin 
American Studies, Georgetown University; Mr. Carlos Lauria, 
Senior Coordinator, Americas Program, Committee to Protect 
Journalists; Cynthia J. Arnson, Ph.D., Director, Latin America 
Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
    September 26, 2013--A Closer Look at Cuba and its Recent 
History of Proliferation. Head, Countering Illicit 
Trafficking--Mechanism Assessment Projects, Stockholm 
International Peace Research Institute; Ms. Maria C. Werlau, 
Executive Director, Cuba Archive; Ms. Mary Beth Nikitin, 
Specialist in Nonproliferation, Congressional Research Service.
    December 9, 2013--Improving Security and Facilitating 
Commerce with Mexico at America's Southern Border. The 
Honorable Alan Bersin, Assistant Secretary, Office of 
International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer, U.S. 
Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice 
President, Council of the Americas and Americas Society; Mr. 
Glenn Hamer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Arizona 
Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Ms. Lea Marquez Peterson, 
President and Chief Executive Officer, Tucson Hispanic Chamber 
of Commerce; Mr. Timothy C. Hutchens, Executive Vice President 
and Head, Federal Lessor Advisory Group, CBRE, Inc.; Mr. 
Christopher Wilson, Associate, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars.

                H. Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Mismanagement, 
                         and Oversight Hearings

(Government Accountability Office (GAO), Inspector General, or 
other reports, if any, related to a hearing are indicated in 
brackets at the end of a listing.)

    January 23, 2013--Full Committee: Terrorist Attack in 
Benghazi: The Secretary of State's View. The Honorable Hillary 
Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State. 
[Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB) Report]
    February 14, 2013--Full Committee: The Crisis in Mali: U.S. 
Interests and the International Response. The Honorable Johnnie 
Carson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. 
Department of State; Ms. Amanda Dory, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for African Affairs, Office of the Secretary of 
Defense, U.S. Department of Defense. [GAO-08-860]
    February 26, 2013--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: 
The Rebalance to Asia: Why South Asia Matters (Part I). 
Honorable Robert O. Blake, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South 
and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Joseph 
Y. Yun, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
    February 28, 2013--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere: 
Overview of U.S. Interests in the Western Hemisphere: 
Opportunities and Challenges. The Honorable Roberta Jacobson, 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. 
Department of State; The Honorable Mark Feierstein, Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. 
Agency for International Development. [Report required by 
section 5 of P.L. 112-120]
    March 19, 2013--Subcommittee on Middle East and North 
Africa and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: .After the 
Withdrawal: The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Part 
I). Seth G. Jones, Ph.D., Associate Director, International 
Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation; Kimberly 
Kagan, Ph.D., President, Institute for the Study of War; Mr. 
Peter Bergen, Director, National Security Studies Program, The 
New America Foundation; and Daniel S. Markey, Ph.D., Senior 
Fellow for India Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign 
Relations. [GAO-13-218SP]
    April 16, 2013--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, 
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Kenya's 
2013 Elections: An Effective Assistance Model? Mr. Paul Fagan, 
Regional Director for Africa, International Republican 
Institute; Keith Jennings, Ph.D., Senior Associate and Regional 
Director for Southern and East Africa, National Democratic 
Institute; and Mr. Bill Sweeney, President and Chief Executive 
Officer, International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
    April 17, 2013--Full Committee: Securing U.S. Interests 
Abroad: The FY 2014 Foreign Affairs Budget. The Honorable John 
F. Kerry, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State. 
[Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB) Report]
    April 24, 2013--Full Committee: Export Control Reform: The 
Agenda Ahead. Mr. Thomas Kelly, Acting Assistant Secretary, 
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, U.S. Department of State; 
The Honorable Kevin J. Wolf, Assistant Secretary of Commerce 
for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, 
U.S. Department of Commerce; Mr. James A. Hursch, Director, 
Defense Technology Security Administration, U.S. Department of 
Defense. [GAO-12-613; GAO-11-135R]
    April 25, 2013--Full Committee: The FY 2014 Budget Request: 
U.S. Foreign Assistance Priorities and Strategy. The Honorable 
Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International 
Development; The Honorable Daniel W. Yohannes, Chief Executive 
Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation.
    April 25, 2013--Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Nonproliferation, and Trade: Natural Gas Exports: Economic and 
Geopolitical Opportunities. Mr. Rob Bryngelson, Chief Executive 
Officer, Excelerate Energy; W. David Montgomery, Ph.D., Senior 
Vice President, National Economic Research Associates; Michael 
A. Levi, Ph.D., Director, Program on Energy Security and 
Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations; Mr. David Mallino 
Jr., Legislative Director, Laborers International Union of 
North America; Mr. Michael Ratner, Specialist in Energy Policy, 
Congressional Research Service.
    May 7, 2013--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global 
Human Rights, and International Organizations: Increasing 
American Jobs through Greater Exports to Africa. Mr. Stephen 
Lande, President, Manchester Trade; Mr. Peter C. Hansen, 
Principal Counsel, Law Offices of Peter C. Hansen, LLC; Sharon 
T. Freeman, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, All 
American Small Business Exporters Association; and Ms. Barbara 
Keating, President and Founder, Computer Frontiers.
    May 9, 2013--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global 
Human Rights, and International Organizations: Resolving 
International Parental Child Abductions to Non-Hague Convention 
Countries. The Honorable Susan Jacobs, Special Advisor for 
Children's Issues, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department 
of State; Ms. Patricia Apy, Attorney, Paras, Apy & Reiss, P.C.; 
Ms. Bindu Philips, Mother of Children Abducted to India; Mr. 
Colin Bower, Father of Children Abducted to Egypt; Mr. Michael 
Elias, Father of Children Abducted to Japan; and Mr. David 
Goldman, Father of Child Abducted to Brazil.
    May 16, 2013--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: 
Assessing U.S. Foreign Assistance Priorities in East Asia and 
the Pacific. Mr. Joseph Y. Yun, Acting Assistant Secretary, 
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of 
State; The Honorable Nisha Biswal, Assistant Administrator, 
Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development.
    May 21, 2013--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North 
Africa and the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and 
Trade. The Growing Crisis in Africa's Sahel Region. The 
Honorable Donald Y. Yamamoto, Acting Assistant Secretary of 
State, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The 
Honorable Nancy E. Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau 
for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. 
Agency for International Development; Mr. Rudolph Atallah, 
Senior Fellow, Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, Atlantic 
Council; Mima S. Nedelcovych, Ph.D., Partner, Schaffer Global 
Group; and Mr. Nii Akuetteh, Former Georgetown University 
Professor of African Affairs.
    May 22, 2013--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North 
Africa: The Middle East and North Africa FY 2014 Budget: 
Priorities and Challenges. The Honorable Beth Jones, Acting 
Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, 
U.S. Department of State; Ms. Alina L. Romanowski, Acting 
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S. 
Agency for International Development.
    May 23, 2013--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere: U.S.-
Mexico Security Cooperation: An Overview of the Merida 
Initiative 2008-Present. Mr. John D. Feeley, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. 
Department of State; The Honorable William R. Brownfield, 
Assistant Secretary, International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Elizabeth 
Hogan, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin 
America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International 
Development; Ms. Clare R. Seelke, Specialist in Latin American 
Affairs, Congressional Research Service; Mr. Steven Dudley, 
Director, InSight Crime; Francisco E. Gonzalez, Ph.D., Riordan 
Roett Senior Associate Professor, Latin American Studies, John 
Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
    June 5, 2013--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: 
Assessing U.S. Relations with Vietnam. Mr. Joseph Y. Yun, 
Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Daniel B. Baer, Ph.D., 
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights 
and Labor, U.S. Department of State.
    June 12, 2013--Full Committee: Modernizing U.S. 
International Food Aid: Reaching More for Less. The Honorable 
Andrew Natsios, Executive Professor, The George H.W. Bush 
School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, 
Former Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development; The Honorable Dan Glickman, 
Executive Director, Aspen Institute Congressional Program, 
Former Secretary of Agriculture. [GAO-08-83T ; GAO-11-636]
    June 12, 2013--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North 
Africa: American NGOs Under Threat in Morsi's Egypt. Mr. Lorne 
Craner, President, International Republican Institute (former 
Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor); Mr. 
David Kramer, President, Freedom House (former Assistant 
Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor); Mr. Kenneth 
Wollack, President, National Democratic Institute; Ms. Joyce 
Barnathan, President, International Center for Journalists.
    June 19, 2013--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere: 
Regional Security Cooperation: An Examination of the Central 
American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) and the Caribbean 
Basin Security Initiative (CBSI). The Honorable William R. 
Brownfield, Assistant Secretary, International Narcotics and 
Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Liliana 
Ayalde, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western 
Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Mark Lopes, 
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and 
the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr. 
Eric L. Olson, Associate Director, Latin America Program, 
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Mr. Michael 
Shifter, President, Inter-American Dialogue. [GAO-13-295R]
    June 26, 2013--Full Committee: Broadcasting Board of 
Governors: An Agency ``Defunct''. The Honorable James K. 
Glassman, Founding Executive Director, George W. Bush 
Institute, Former Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of 
Governors, and Former Under Secretary of State for Public 
Diplomacy and Public Affairs; The Honorable S. Enders Wimbush, 
Executive Director for Strategy & Development, National Bureau 
of Asian Research, Former Governor of the Broadcasting Board of 
Governors; The Honorable D. Jeff Hirschberg, Chairman, The 
Northeast Maglev, LLC, Former Governor of the Broadcasting 
Board of Governors. [GAO-13-172]
    June 27, 2013--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, 
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: 
Addressing the Neglected Diseases Treatment Gap. Lee Hall, 
M.D., Ph.D., Chief Parasitology and International Programs 
Branch, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National 
Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services; Jesse Goodman, M.D., Chief Scientist, Food and Drug 
Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 
Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., President, Sabin Vaccine 
Institute; Jay Siegel, M.D., Chief Biotechnology Officer and 
Head of Scientific Strategy and Policy, Johnson & Johnson; and 
Alix Zwane, Ph.D., Executive Director, Evidence Action.
    July 9, 2013--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North 
Africa: Learning from Iraq: A Final Report from the Special 
Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. The Honorable Stuart 
W. Bowen, Jr., Special Inspector General for Iraq 
Reconstruction; The Honorable John Herbst, Director, Center for 
Complex Operations, National Defense University, Former 
American Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan. [Final Report of 
the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (March 6, 
2013)]
    July 10, 2013--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North 
Africa: The Terrorist Threat in North Africa: Before and After 
Benghazi. Mr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Director, Center for the 
Study of Terrorist Radicalization, Foundation for Defense of 
Democracies; Mr. Aaron Zelin, Richard Borow Fellow, The 
Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Daniel L. Byman, 
Ph.D., Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown 
University; Mr. Mike Lovelady, Brother of Algerian gas plant 
terrorist attack victim, Victor Lovelady.
    July 10, 2013--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, 
and Trade: The Abu Dhabi Pre-Clearance Facility: Implications 
for U.S. Businesses and National Security. Mr. Kevin K. 
McAleenan, Acting Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Nicholas E. 
Calio, President and CEO, Airlines for America; Captain Lee 
Moak, President, Air Line Pilots Association, International.
    July 18, 2013--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, 
and Trade: Global al-Qaeda: Affiliates, Objectives, and Future 
Challenges. Seth Jones, Ph.D., Associate Director, 
International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND 
Corporation; Frederick W. Kagan, Ph.D., Christopher DeMuth 
Chair and Director, Critical Threats Project, American 
Enterprise Institute; Mr. Thomas Joscelyn, Senior Editor, The 
Long War Journal, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Thomas 
Hegghammer, Ph.D., Zuckerman Fellow, Center for International 
Security and Cooperation, Stanford University.
    August 1, 2013--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, 
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: The 
Impact of U.S. Water Programs on Global Health. The Honorable 
Christian Holmes, Global Water Coordinator, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; Aaron A. Salzberg, Ph.D., Special 
Coordinator for Water Resources, U.S. Department of State; Mr. 
John Oldfield, Chief Executive Officer, WASH Advocates; Mr. 
Malcolm Morris, Chairman, Millennium Water Alliance; and Mr. 
Buey Ray Tut, Executive Director, Aqua Africa.
    August 1, 2013--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North 
Africa: Examining the State Department's Report on Iranian 
Presence in the Western Hemisphere 19 Years After AMIA Attack. 
Matthew Levitt, Ph.D., Director and Senior Fellow, Stein 
Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, The Washington 
Institute for Near East Policy; Mr. Michael A. Braun, Co-
Founder and Managing Partner, Spectre Group International, LLC, 
Former Chief of Operations, Drug Enforcement Agency; Eric 
Farnsworth, Vice President, Council of the Americas and 
Americas Society. [Report required by section 5 of P.L. 112-
120]
    September 18, 2013--Full Committee: Benghazi: Where is the 
State Department Accountability? The Honorable Patrick F. 
Kennedy, Under Secretary for Management, U.S. Department of 
State. [Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB) Report]
    September 19, 2013--Subcommittee on the Middle East and 
North Africa: Examining the Syrian Refugee Crisis. The 
Honorable Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 
Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State; 
The Honorable Nancy E. Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, 
Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, 
U.S. Agency for International Development.
    October 9, 2013--Full Committee: Haiti: Is U.S. Aid 
Effective? Mr. David B. Gootnick, Director, International 
Affairs and Trade, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Mr. 
Thomas C. Adams, Haiti Special Coordinator, U.S. Department of 
State; Ms. Elizabeth Hogan, Acting Assistant Administrator, 
Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for 
International Development. [GAO-14-47T; GAO-13-558]
    October 29, 2013--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: 
Joint Subcommittee Hearing: After the Withdrawal: The Way 
Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Part II). Frederick W. 
Kagan, Ph.D., Christopher DeMuth Chair and Director, Critical 
Threats Project, American Enterprise Institute for Public 
Policy Research; General Jack Keane, USA, Retired, Chairman of 
the Board, Institute for the Study of War; Ms. Lisa Curtis, 
Senior Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage 
Foundation; Stephen Biddle, Ph.D., Adjunct Senior Fellow for 
Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations.
    November 13, 2013--Subcommittee on the Middle East and 
North Africa: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Iraq. Mr. Brett 
McGurk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq and Iran, Bureau of 
Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
    November 19, 2013--Subcommittee on the Middle East and 
North Africa: U.S. Policy Toward the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen 
and Bahrain. Ms. Barbara Leaf, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
the Arabian Peninsula, U.S. Department of State.
    December 3, 2013--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, 
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: The U.S. 
Post-Typhoon Response in the Philippines: Health and Human 
Rights Issues. The Honorable Nancy Lindborg, Assistant 
Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian 
Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr. Sean 
Callahan, Chief Operating Officer, Catholic Relief Services; 
Mr. Chris Palusky, Senior Director, Humanitarian and Emergency 
Affairs,World Vision.
    December 4, 2013--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: 
Oversight of U.S. Policy Toward Burma. Ms. Judith Cefkin, 
Senior Advisor for Burma, Bureau of East Asia and the Pacific, 
U.S. Department of State; Mr. Vikram J. Singh, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia, Office of 
the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific 
Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense; Mr. Gregory Beck, 
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency 
for International Development. [GAO-07-457]
    December 11, 2013--Full Committee: Afghanistan 2014: Year 
of Transition. The Honorable James F. Dobbins, Special 
Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Department of 
State; Mr. Donald L. Sampler, Assistant to the Administrator, 
Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; Mr. Michael J. Dumont, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense Afghanistan, Pakistan, & Central 
Asia, U.S. Department of Defense. [Quarterly Report of the 
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction 
(October 30, 2013)]

                 I. Committee-Hosted Dignitary Meetings

    Members Meeting with the United Nations Secretary-General, 
Ban Ki-Moon (February 13, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the French Ambassador to the United 
States, Francois Delattre (March 18, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the King of Jordan, Abdullah II ibn 
Al- Hussein (April 25, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the President of Liberia, Ellen 
Johnson Sirleaf (May 15, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the President of Peru, Ollanta Humala 
Tasso (June 12, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the Chairman of the DPP Taiwan, Tsend-
chang Su (June 12, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs 
Committee of China, Madam Fu Ying (June 20, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the Commander of the United States 
Army Africa, Major General Patrick J. Donahue II (July 9, 2013)
    Members Meeting with Ambassador Somduth Soberun of Republic 
of Mauritius, Ambassador Al-Maamoun Keita of the Republic of 
Mali, Ambassador Palan Mulonda of the Republic of Zambia, and 
Ambassador Michael Moussa-Adamo of the Republic of Gabon (July 
24, 2013)
    Members Meeting with Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba of the 
United Arab Emirates to the United States and Ambassador Adel 
A. Al-Jubeir of Saudi Arabia to the U.S. (September 11, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the Speaker of Nigeria, Aminu Waziri 
Tambuwal (September 12, 2013)
    Members Meeting with Ambassador Alia Hatoug Bouran of the 
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United States (September 19, 
2013)
    Members Meeting with the Prime Minister of the Islamic 
Republic of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif (October 22, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the Minister of Strategic Affairs and 
Intelligence Affairs of the State of Israel, Dr. Yuval Steinitz 
(October 24, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the United Nations Commission of 
Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of 
Korea, Michael Donal Kirby and Sonja Biserko (October 30, 2013)
    Members Meeting with Australian Chief of Defense Force 
Liaison Officer to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brigadier 
Damian Cantwell (November 12, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the United States Ambassador to the 
United Nations, Samantha Powers (November 14, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the Special Envoy to the African 
Region and Democratic Republic of Congo, Senator Russell 
Feingold (November 18, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the Co-Chair to the Bill and Melinda 
Gates Foundations, Bill Gates (December 3, 2013)
    Members Meeting with the Israeli Ambassador to the United 
States, Ron Dermer (December 6, 2013)
                                     

                                APPENDIX

 (MEMBERSHIP OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS)

                                     

    Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and 
                      International Organizations


Karen Bass, CA, Ranking Member       Christopher H. Smith, NJ, Chairman
David Cicilline, RI                  Tom Marino, PA
Ami Bera, CA                         Randy K. Weber Sr., TX
                                     Steve Stockman, TX
                                     Mark Meadows, NC

                  Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific

Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, AS, Ranking Membere Chabot, OH, Chairman
Ami Bera, CA                         Dana Rohrabacher, CA
Tulsi Gabbard, HI                    Matt Salmon, AZ
Brad Sherman, CA                     Mo Brooks, AL
Gerald E. Connolly, VA               George Holding, NC
William Keating, MA                  Scott Perry, PA
                                     Doug Collins, GA
                                     Luke Messer, IN

         Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats

William Keating, MA, Ranking Member  Dana Rohrabacher, CA, Chairman
Gregory W. Meeks, NY                 Ted Poe, TX
Albio Sires, NJ                      Tom Marino, PA
Brian Higgins, NY                    Jeff Duncan, SC
Alan S. Lowenthal, CA                Paul Cook, CA
                                     George Holding, NC
                                     Steve Stockman, TX

            Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa

Theodore E. Deutch, FL, Ranking Memberleana Ros-Lehtinen, FL, Chairman
Gerald E. Connolly, VA               Steve Chabot, OH
Brian Higgins, NY                    Joe Wilson, SC
David Cicilline, RI                  Adam Kinzinger, IL
Alan Grayson, FL                     Tom Cotton, AR
Juan Vargas, CA                      Randy K. Weber Sr., TX
Bradley S. Schneider, IL             Ron DeSantis, FL
Joseph P. Kennedy III, MA            Trey Radel, FL
Grace Meng, NY                       Doug Collins, GA
Lois Frankel, FL                     Mark Meadows, NC
                                     Ted S. Yoho, FL
                                     Luke Messer, IN

         Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade

Brad Sherman, CA, Ranking Member     Ted Poe, TX, Chairman
Alan S. Lowenthal, CA                Joe Wilson, SC
Joaquin Castro, TX                   Adam Kinzinger, IL
Juan Vargas, CA                      Mo Brooks, AL
Bradley S. Schneider, IL             Tom Cotton, AR
Joseph P. Kennedy III, MA            Paul Cook, CA
                                     Scott Perry, PA
                                     Ted S. Yoho, FL

                 Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere

Albio Sires, NJ, Ranking Member      Matt Salmon, AZ, Chairman
Gregory W. Meeks, NY                 Christopher H. Smith, NJ
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, AS            Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, FL
Theodore E. Deutch, FL               Michael T. McCaul, TX
Alan Grayson, FL                     Jeff Duncan, SC
                                     Ron DeSantis, FL
                                     Trey Radel, FL

                                  
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