[House Report 113-318]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
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
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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.
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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