[House Report 113-728]
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113th Congress } { Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2nd Session } { 113-728
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Union Calendar No. 559
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, 2015.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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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
DOUG COLLINS, Georgia GRACE MENG, New York
MARK MEADOWS, North Carolina LOIS FRANKEL, Florida
TED S. YOHO, Florida TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii
SEAN DUFFY, Wisconsin JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas
CURT CLAWSON, Florida
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. General Review Activities of the Committee........................1
A. Executive Branch Reports and Congressional
Notifications...................................... 1
B. Reference Documents................................. 2
II. Summary of Legislative Activity...................................2
A. Full Committee Markup Summaries..................... 2
B. Committee Reports Filed............................. 9
C. Foreign Affairs Legislation Considered by the House. 9
III.Meetings of the Full Committee and Subcommittees.................13
A. Full Committee...................................... 13
B. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human
Rights, and International Organizations............ 17
C. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific................ 21
D. Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging
Threats............................................ 23
E. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.... 24
F. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and
Trade.............................................. 28
G. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.............. 30
H. Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Mismanagement, and Oversight
Hearings........................................... 32
I. Committee-Hosted Dignitary Meetings................. 39
Appendix:
Membership of the Subcommittees of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs...................................................... 41
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
House of Representatives,
Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Washington, DC, January 2, 2015.
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 Second Session of 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 Second Session of the 113th Congress through
December 19, 2014.
Sincerely,
Edward R. Royce,
Chairman.
FOREWORD
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House of Representatives,
Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Washington, DC, January 2, 2015.
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 Second Session of the
113th Congress through December 19, 2014, has been prepared and
submitted in fulfillment of that obligation.
Union Calendar No. 559
113th Congress } { Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2nd Session } { 113-728
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LEGISLATIVE REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES
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January 2, 2015--Committed to the Committee on 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. 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 conduct a regular and robust review of
congressional notifications and reports 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 452 notifications
and reports from the Department of State, 257 from the United
States Agency for International Development, 119 from the
Defense Security Cooperation Agency, 40 from the Securities and
Exchange Commission, 43 from the Department of Defense, 9 from
the Millennium Challenge Corporation, 4 from the United States
Trade and Development Agency, and 1 from the Broadcasting Board
of Governors.
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.
II. SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY
A. Full Committee Markup Summaries
(Subcommittee markups are listed in section III, below)
1/29/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up the following measures for
consideration by the committee:
H. Res. 447 (Engel), ``Supporting the democratic and
European aspirations of the people of Ukraine, and their right
to choose their own future free of intimidation and fear'';
1. By unanimous consent, Engel 16 (an amendment in the
nature of a substitute previously provided to members of the
committee) was considered the base text;
a. By unanimous consent, Engel 84 (an
amendment to the base text, previously provided
to members of the committee) was considered en
bloc with the base text;
b. By unanimous consent, at the request of
Rep. Engel, the second full paragraph of the
preamble (``Whereas closer relations with the
European Union (EU) through the signing of an
Association Agreement should promote democratic
values, good governance, and economic
opportunity in Ukraine;'') was struck from the
base text.
H. Res. 447, as amended, was agreed to by voice vote, and
ordered favorably reported to the House by unanimous consent.
H.R. 938 (Ros-Lehtinen/Deutch), ``To strengthen the
strategic alliance between the United States and Israel, and
for other purposes'';
1. By unanimous consent, Ros-Lehtinen/Deutch 15 (an
amendment in the nature of a substitute previously provided to
members of the committee) was considered the base text;
a. By unanimous consent, Smith 99 (an
amendment to the base text, previously provided
to members of the committee) was considered en
bloc with the base text.
H.R. 938, as amended, was agreed to by voice vote, and
ordered favorably reported to the House by unanimous consent.
The committee adjourned.
2/27/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up H.R. 2548 (Royce), ``Electrify Africa
Act of 2014,'' for consideration by the committee;
1. By unanimous consent, Royce-Engel 73 (an amendment in
the nature of a substitute previously provided to members of
the committee) was considered the base text;
a. Rep. Meadows offered an amendment, Meadows
29, agreed to by voice vote.
H.R. 2548, as amended, was agreed to by voice vote, and
ordered favorably reported to the House by unanimous consent.
The committee adjourned.
3/25/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up the following measures for
consideration by the committee:
H.R. 4278 (Royce), ``Ukraine Support Act'';
1. Rep. Royce offered the manager's amendment, Royce 96
(previously provided to members of the committee), agreed to by
voice vote;
2. Rep. Royce offered five amendments to be considered en
bloc:
a. Grayson 232;
b. Keating 27;
c. Keating 28;
d. Lowenthal 23;
e. Messer 120;
3. Rep. Connolly offered an amendment, Connolly 98,
agreed to by voice vote;
4. Rep. Duncan offered an amendment, Duncan 46,
withdrawn;
5. Rep. Duncan offered an amendment, Duncan 45, agreed to
by voice vote;
6. Rep. Castro offered an amendment, Castro 23, agreed to
by voice vote;
7. Rep. Poe offered an amendment, Poe 74, agreed to by
voice vote;
8. Rep. Stockman offered an amendment, Stockman 14,
agreed to by voice vote;
9. Rep. Gabbard offered an amendment, Gabbard 1, agreed
to by voice vote;
10. Rep. Salmon offered an amendment, Salmon 40;
a. Chairman Royce offered a second-degree
amendment to Salmon 40, adopted by unanimous
consent;
Salmon 40, as amended by the Royce second-degree amendment,
was agreed to by voice vote;
11. Rep. Keating offered an amendment, Keating 26, not
agreed to by voice vote;
12. Rep. Duncan offered an amendment, Duncan 46 Revised,
agreed to by voice vote;
13. Rep. Meeks offered an amendment, Meeks 26, withdrawn.
The following measures and amendments in the nature of a
substitute (also previously provided to members of the
committee) were considered en bloc and agreed to by voice vote:
H. Res. 418 (McGovern), ``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'';
1. Royce 97, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H. Res. 418.
H. Res. 494 (Royce), ``Affirming the importance of the
Taiwan Relations Act'';
1. Royce 94, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H. Res. 494.
H.R. 4278, as amended; H. Res. 418, as amended; and H. Res.
494, as amended, were ordered favorably reported to the House
by unanimous consent.
The committee adjourned.
4/3/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up H.R. 3583 (Ros-Lehtinen), ``Malala
Yousafzai Scholarship Act,'' for consideration by the
committee.
By unanimous consent, two amendments (previously provided
to members of the committee) were considered en bloc:
1. Ros-Lehtinen 42, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
a. Connolly 100, a second degree amendment to
Ros-Lehtinen 42;
Rep. Frankel offered a second degree amendment, Frankel 1,
to Ros-Lehtinen 42, which was agreed to by voice vote.
The en bloc amendments, as amended by Frankel 1, were
agreed to by voice vote.
By unanimous consent, H.R. 3583, as amended, was ordered
favorably reported to the House.
The committee adjourned.
4/30/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up the following measures for
consideration by the committee:
H.R. 4490 (Royce), ``United States International
Communications Reform Act of 2014'';
By unanimous consent, the following amendments to H.R. 4490
were considered read and considered en bloc:
1. Royce manager's amendment 102;
2. Keating 1;
3. Lowenthal 27;
4. Rohrabacher 39;
5. Sherman 85.
The amendments considered en bloc were agreed to by voice
vote.
H.R. 4490, as amended, was agreed to by voice vote, and
ordered favorably reported to the House by unanimous consent.
By unanimous consent, the following measures and amendments
were considered en bloc:
H.R. 4028 (Meng), ``To amend the International Religious
Freedom Act of 1998 to include the desecration of cemeteries
among the many forms of violations of the right to religious
freedom'';
1. Collins 44, amending H.R. 4028.
H. Res. 520 (Royce), ``Calling for an end to attacks on
Syrian civilians and expanded humanitarian access'';
1. Royce 10, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H. Res. 520.
H. Con. Res. 51 (Smith), ``Immediate Establishment of
Syrian War Crimes Tribunal Resolution'';
1. Smith 51, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H. Con. Res. 51.
The en bloc items were agreed to by voice vote, and the
measures, as amended, were ordered favorably reported to the
House by unanimous consent.
The committee adjourned.
5/9/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair obtained unanimous consent to consider the
following items (previously provided to members) en bloc:
H.R. 4587 (Ros-Lehtinen), ``To impose targeted sanctions on
individuals responsible for carrying out or ordering human
rights abuses against the citizens of Venezuela, and for other
purposes'';
1. Salmon 46, amending H.R. 4587.
H.R. 4573 (Smith-NJ), ``To protect children from
exploitation, especially sex trafficking in tourism, by
providing advance notice of intended travel by registered
child-sex offenders outside the United States to the government
of the country of destination, requesting foreign governments
to notify the United States when a known child-sex offender is
seeking to enter the United States, and for other purposes'';
1. Smith 53, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H.R. 4573.
H. Res. 573, ``Condemning the abduction of female students
by armed militants from the terrorist group known as Boko Haram
in northeastern provinces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria'';
1. Royce 105, amending H. Res. 573.
The en bloc items were agreed to by voice vote, and the
measures, as amended, were ordered favorably reported to the
House by unanimous consent.
The committee adjourned.
5/29/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair obtained unanimous consent to consider the
following items (previously provided to members) en bloc:
H.R. 1771 (Royce), ``To improve the enforcement of
sanctions against the Government of North Korea, and for other
purposes'';
1. Royce 29, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H.R. 1771;
a. Castro 33, amending Royce 29;
b. Connolly 118, amending Royce 29.
H.R. 4449 (Maloney), ``To amend the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000 to expand the training for Federal
Government personnel related to trafficking in persons, and for
other purposes.''
H. Res. 600 (Grayson), ``Urging the Government of
Afghanistan, following a successful first round of the
presidential election on April 5, 2014, to pursue a
transparent, credible, and inclusive run-off presidential
election on June 14, 2014, while ensuring the safety of voters,
candidates, poll workers, and election observers.''
The en bloc items were agreed to by voice vote, and the
measures, as amended, were ordered favorably reported to the
House by unanimous consent.
The committee adjourned.
6/26/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up the following measures for
consideration by the committee:
H.R. 4347 (Royce), ``Turkey Christian Churches
Accountability Act'';
1. By unanimous consent, Royce 117 (an amendment in the
nature of a substitute previously provided to members of the
committee) was considered base text for purposes of markup;
a. Connolly 124, an amendment in the nature of
a substitute, was not agreed to by voice vote;
The following amendments were considered en bloc and agreed
to by voice vote:
b. Grayson 284;
c. Holding 851.
H.R. 4347, as amended, was ordered favorably reported to
the House by unanimous consent.
By unanimous consent the following items were considered en
bloc:
H.R. 2283 (Smith), ``To prioritize the fight against human
trafficking within the Department of State according to
congressional intent in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
of 2000 without increasing the size of the Federal Government,
and for other purposes'';
1. Smith 58, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H.R. 2283;
a. Smith 60, amending Smith 58.
H.R. 4411 (Meadows), ``To prevent Hezbollah and associated
entities from gaining access to international financial and
other institutions, and for other purposes'';
1. Royce 120, an amendment in the nature of a substitute
to H.R. 4411;
a. Poe/Sherman 92, amending Royce 120;
b. DeSantis/Deutch/Meng 51, amending Royce
120.
H.R. 4640 (Engel), ``To establish the Western Hemisphere
Drug Policy Commission'';
1. Engel 60, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H.R. 4640;
a. Castro 36, amending Engel 60.
H.R. 4653 (Wolf), ``To reauthorize the United States
Commission on International Religious Freedom, and for other
purposes'';
1. Smith 55, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H.R. 4653;
a. Meng 47, amending Smith 55.
H. Res. 435 (Deutch), ``Calling on the government of Iran
to fulfill their promises of assistance in this case of Robert
Levinson, one of the longest held United States civilians in
our Nation's history'';
1. Ros-Lehtinen 49, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute to H. Res. 435.
H. Res. 562 (Pitts), ``Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives with respect to enhanced relations with the
Republic of Moldova and support for Moldova's territorial
integrity'';
1. Royce 123, an amendment in the nature of a substitute
to H. Res. 562.
H. Res. 588 (Peterson), ``Concerning the suspension of exit
permit issuance by the Government of the Democratic Republic of
Congo for adopted Congolese children seeking to depart the
country with their adoptive parents'';
1. Smith 57, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H. Res. 588;
a. Royce 122, amending Smith 57.
The items en bloc were agreed to by voice vote, and the
measures, as amended, were ordered favorably reported to the
House by unanimous consent.
The committee adjourned.
7/30/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up the following measures for
consideration by the committee and, by unanimous consent, the
following items were considered en bloc:
H.R. 3398 (Chabot), ``Girls Count Act of 2014'';
1. Chabot 50 in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 3398;
a. Manager's amendment 53 to Chabot 50.
H.R. 5041 (Lamborn), ``Naftali Fraenkel Rewards for Justice
Act of 2014'';
1. Royce/Sherman/McCaul/Engel 130 in the nature of a
substitute to H.R. 5041.
H.R. 5235 (Engel), ``To authorize further assistance to
Israel for the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system'';
1. Engel/Royce 62 in the nature of a substitute to H.R.
5235.
H. Res. 281 (Ros-Lehtinen), ``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'';
1. Manager's amendment 129 in the nature of a substitute
to H. Res. 281.
H. Res. 683, ``Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives on the current situation in Iraq and the urgent
need to protect religious minorities from persecution from the
Sunni Islamist insurgent and terrorist group the Islamic State
in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) as it expands its control over areas
in northwestern Iraq'';
1. Poe 95.
The items considered en bloc were agreed to by voice vote,
and the measures, as amended, were ordered favorably reported
to the House by unanimous consent.
The committee adjourned.
11/20/14 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair obtained unanimous consent to consider the
following items (previously provided to members) en bloc:
H.R. 2901 (Blumenauer), ``Senator Paul Simon Water for the
World Act of 2013'';
1. Poe 110, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to
H.R. 2901.
H.R. 5206 (Grayson), ``To allow Foreign Service and other
executive agency employees to designate beneficiaries of their
death benefits'';
1. Grayson 301, an amendment in the nature of a substitute
to H.R. 5206.
H.R. 5241 (Connolly), ``To prohibit United States
Government recognition of Russia's annexation of Crimea.''
H.R. 5656 (Smith-NJ), ``To authorize the Feed the Future
Initiative to reduce global poverty and hunger in developing
countries on a sustainable basis, and for other purposes'';
1. Smith 80, an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
a. Smith 84, a second-degree amendment to
Smith 80.
H.R. 5685 (McCaul), ``Rewards for Justice Congressional
Notification Act of 2014.''
H.R. 5710 (Smith-NJ), ``Ebola Emergency Response Act'';
1. Smith 82;
2. Cicilline 51;
3. Perry 45.
H. Res. 714 (Faleomavaega), ``Reaffirming the peaceful and
collaborative resolution of maritime and jurisdictional
disputes in the South China Sea and the East China Sea as
provided for by universally recognized principles of
international law, and reaffirming the strong support of the
United States Government for freedom of navigation and other
internationally lawful uses of sea and airspace in the Asia-
Pacific region'';
1. Faleomavaega 22, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
H. Res. 758 (Engel), ``Strongly condemning the actions of
the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which
has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring
countries aimed at political and economic domination'';
1. Engel 68, an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
The items considered en bloc were agreed to by voice vote,
and the measures, as amended, were ordered favorably reported
to the House by unanimous consent.
The committee adjourned.
B. Committee Reports Filed
House Report: 113-318: Legislative Review and Oversight
Activities of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, First Session
of the 113th Congress.
House Report: 113-433: The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to
whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2548) to establish a
comprehensive United States Government policy to assist
countries in sub-Saharan Africa to develop an appropriate mix
of power solutions for more broadly distributed electricity
access in order to support poverty alleviation and drive
economic growth, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with amendments and recommends
that the bill as amended do pass.
House Report: 113-541: The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to
whom was referred the bill (H.R. 4490) to enhance the missions,
objectives, and effectiveness of United States international
communications, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend
that the bill as amended do pass.
House Report: 113-543: The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to
whom was referred the bill (H.R. 4411) to prevent Hezbollah and
associated entities from gaining access to international
financial and other institutions, 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: 113-560: The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to
whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1771) to improve the
enforcement of sanctions against the Government of North Korea,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill
as amended do pass.
C. Foreign Affairs Legislation Considered by the House
The following legislative items were considered during the
reporting period, as indicated.
Legislation Enacted into Law
H.R. 2901 (Blumenauer)--Senator Paul Simon Water for the
World Act of 2014. [Became Public Law 113-289.]
S. 2142 (Menendez)--Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and
Civil Society Act of 2014. [Became Public Law 113-278.]
S. 1683 (Menendez)--A bill to provide for the transfer of
naval vessels to certain foreign recipients, and for other
purposes. [Became Public Law 113-276.]
H.R. 5859 (Gerlach)--Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014.
[Became Public Law 113-272.]
H.R. 5816 (Royce)--To extend the authorization for the
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
[Became Public Law 113-271.]
H.R. 5681 (Royce)--To provide for the approval of the
Amendment to the Agreement Between the Government of the United
States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland for Cooperation on the Uses
of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes. [Became Public
Law 113-228.]
S. 1104 (Nelson)--Assessing Progress in Haiti Act of 2014.
[Became Public Law 113-201.]
S. 653 (Blunt)--Near East and South Central Asia Religious
Freedom Act of 2014. [Became Public Law 113-161.]
H.R. 5195 (Blumenauer)--Emergency Afghan Allies Extension
Act of 2014. [Became Public Law 113-160.]
H.R. 4028 (Meng)--To amend the International Religious
Freedom Act of 1998 to include the desecration of cemeteries
among the many forms of violations of the right to religious
freedom. [Became Public Law 113-154.]
H.R. 3212 (Smith)--Sean and David Goldman International
Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2014. [Became
Public Law 113-150.]
H.R. 4152 (Rogers)--Support for the Sovereignty, Integrity,
Democracy, and Economic Stability of Ukraine Act of 2014.
[Became Public Law 113-95.]
S. 1901 (Menendez)--Support for United States-Republic of
Korea Civil Nuclear Cooperation Act. [Became Public Law 113-
81.]
Legislation Passed by the House and Senate
H. Con. Res. 107 (Ros-Lehtinen)--A concurrent resolution
denouncing the use of civilians as human shields by Hamas and
other terrorist organizations.
Legislation Passed by the House
H.R. 938 (Ros-Lehtinen)--United States-Israel Strategic
Partnership Act of 2014.
H.R. 1771 (Royce)--North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act.
H.R. 2283 (Smith)--Human Trafficking Prioritization Act.
H.R. 2548 (Royce)--Electrify Africa Act of 2014.
H.R. 3398 (Chabot)--Girls Count Act of 2014.
H.R. 3470 (Royce)--To affirm the importance of the Taiwan
Relations Act, to provide for the transfer of naval vessels to
certain foreign countries, and for other purposes.
H.R. 3583 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Malala Yousafzai Scholarship Act.
H.R. 4278 (Royce)--Ukraine Support Act.
H.R. 4411 (Meadows)--Hezbollah International Financing
Prevention Act of 2014.
H.R. 4449 (Maloney)--Human Trafficking Prevention Act.
H.R. 4490 (Royce)--United States International
Communications Reform Act of 2014.
H.R. 4573 (Smith)--International Megan's Law to Prevent
Demand for Child Sex Trafficking.
H.R. 4587 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Venezuelan Human Rights and
Democracy Protection Act.
H.R. 4653 (Wolf)--United States Commission on International
Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2014.
H.R. 5135 (Noem)--Human Trafficking Prevention,
Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2014.
H.R. 5195 (Blumenauer)--Emergency Afghan Allies Extension
Act of 2014.
H.R. 5656 (Smith)--Global Food Security Act of 2014.
H. Con. Res. 105 (McGovern)--Prohibiting the President from
deploying or maintaining United States Armed Forces in a
sustained combat role in Iraq without specific, subsequent
statutory authorization.
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. 418 (McGovern)--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.
H. Res. 447 (Engel)--Supporting the democratic and European
aspirations of the people of Ukraine, and their right to choose
their own future free of intimidation and fear.
H. Res. 488 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Supporting the people of
Venezuela as they protest peacefully for democracy, a reduction
in violent crime and calling for an end to recent violence.
H. Res. 499 (Royce)--Condemning the violation of Ukrainian
sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity by
military forces of the Russian Federation.
H. Res. 562 (Pitts)--Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives with respect to enhanced relations with the
Republic of Moldova and support for Moldova's territorial
integrity.
H. Res. 573 (Wilson)--Condemning the abduction of female
students by armed militants from the terrorist group known as
Boko Haram in northeastern provinces of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.
H. Res. 588 (Peterson)--Concerning the suspension of exit
permit issuance by the Government of the Democratic Republic of
the Congo for adopted Congolese children seeking to depart the
country with their adoptive parents.
H. Res. 599 (Smith)--Urging the Government of the People's
Republic of China to respect the freedom of assembly,
expression, and religion and all fundamental human rights and
the rule of law for all its citizens and to stop censoring
discussion of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and
their violent suppression.
H. Res. 600 (Grayson)--Urging the Government of
Afghanistan, following a successful first round of the
presidential election on April 5, 2014, to pursue a
transparent, credible, and inclusive run-off presidential
election on June 14, 2014, while ensuring the safety of voters,
candidates, poll workers, and election observers.
H. Res. 617 (Wilson)--Condemning the abduction of female
students by armed militants from the terrorist group known as
Boko Haram in northeastern provinces of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria.
H. Res. 657 (Israel)--Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives regarding United States support for the State
of Israel as it defends itself against unprovoked rocket
attacks from the Hamas terrorist organization.
H. Res. 683 (Vargas)--Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives on the current situation in Iraq and the urgent
need to protect religious minorities from persecution from the
Sunni Islamist insurgent and terrorist group the Islamic State
in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) as it expands its control over areas
in northwestern Iraq.
H. Res. 699 (Meeks)--Welcoming African leaders to the first
United States-Africa Leaders' Summit and African trade
ministers to the 13th Forum of the African Growth and
Opportunity Act (AGOA).
H. Res. 707 (Nadler)--Condemning all forms of anti-Semitism
and rejecting attempts to justify anti-Jewish hatred or violent
attacks as an acceptable expression of disapproval or
frustration over political events in the Middle East or
elsewhere.
H. Res. 714 (Faleomavagea)--To reaffirm the strong support
of the United States Government for the peaceful and
collaborative resolution of maritime and jurisdictional
disputes in the South China Sea and the East China Sea as
provided for by universally recognized principles of
international law, and to reaffirm the vital interest of the
United States in freedom of navigation and other
internationally lawful uses of sea and airspace in the Asia-
Pacific region.
H. Res. 726 (Gerlach)--Strongly supporting the right of the
people of Ukraine to freely determine their future, including
their country's relationship with other nations and
international organizations, without interference,
intimidation, or coercion by other countries.
H. Res. 734 (Shea-Porter)--Expressing the condolences of
the House of Representatives to the families of James Foley and
Steven Sotloff, and condemning the terrorist acts of the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
H. Res. 754 (Royce)--Condemning the Government of Iran for
its gross human rights violations.
H. Res. 758 (Kinzinger)--Strongly condemning the actions of
the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which
has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring
countries aimed at political and economic domination.
III. 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 15, 2014--South Sudan's Broken Promise? The
Honorable Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and the Honorable
Earl W. Gast. Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Africa, U.S.
Agency for International Development.
January 29, 2014--Markup. H.R. 447, Supporting the
democratic and European aspirations of the people of Ukraine,
and their right to choose their own future free of intimidation
and fear; and H.R. United States-Israel Strategic Partnership
Act of 2013.
February 27, 2014--Markup. H.R. 2548, Electrify Africa Act
of 2013.
February 5, 2014--Al-Qaeda's Resurgence in Iraq: A Threat
to U.S. Interests. Mr. Brett McGurk, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Iraq and Iran, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S.
Department of State.
February 26, 2014--International Wildlife Trafficking
Threats to Conservation and National Security. The Honorable
Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Daniel M. Ashe, Director,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the
Interior; and Mr. Robert G. Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney
General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S.
Department of Justice.
March 6, 2014--U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Ukraine. Mr. Eric
Rubin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and
Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Paige
Alexander, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe and
Eurasia, U.S. Agency for International Development; and Mr.
Daleep Singh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and
Eurasia, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
March 6, 2014--Markup. H. Res. 499, Condemning the
violation of Ukrainian sovereignty, independence, and
territorial integrity by military forces of the Russian
Federation.
March 13, 2014--Advancing U.S. Interests Abroad: The FY
2015 Foreign Affairs Budget. The Honorable John F. Kerry,
Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State.
March 14, 2014--The Promise of the Taiwan Relations Act.
Mr. Kin Moy, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian
and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
March 25, 2014--Markup. H.R. 4278, Ukraine Support Act; H.
Res. 418, 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 rights
within Burma; and H. Res. 494, Affirming the importance of the
Taiwan Relations Act.
March 26, 2014--The Geopolitical Potential of the U.S.
Energy Boom. Admiral Dennis C. Blair, USN, Retired, Member,
Energy Security Leadership Council, Securing America's Future
Energy; Mr. Harold Hamm, Chairman, Domestic Energy Producers
Alliance; Ms. Elizabeth Rosenberg, Senior Fellow and Director,
Energy, Environment, and Security Program, Center for a New
American Security; and Michael Levi, Ph.D, David M. Rubenstein
Senior Fellow and Director, Program on Energy and Climate
Change, Council on Foreign Relations.
April 3, 2014--Women's Education: Promoting Development,
Countering Radicalism. Hedieh Mirahmadi, Ph.D, President, World
Organization for Resource Development and Education; Ms. Humera
Khan, Executive Director, Muflehun; and Kathleen Kuehnast,
Ph.D, Director, Gender and Peacebuilding Center, United States
Institute of Peace.
April 3, 2014--Markup. H.R. 3583, Malala Yousafzai
Scholarship Act.
April 9, 2014--U.S. Foreign Assistance in FY 2015: What Are
the Priorities, How Effective? The Honorable Rajiv Shah,
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development.
April 30, 2014--Markup. H.R. 4490, United States
International Communications Reform Act of 2014; H.R. 4028, to
amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to
include the desecration of cemeteries among the many forms of
violations of the right to religious freedom; H. Res. 520,
Calling for an end to attacks on Syrian civilians and expanded
humanitarian access; and H. Con. Res. 51, Immediate
Establishment of Syrian War Crimes Tribunal Resolution.
May 8, 2014--Russia's Destabilization of Ukraine. The
Honorable Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and
the Honorable Daniel Glaser, Assistant Secretary, Office of
Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the
Treasury.
May 9, 2014--Markup. H. Res. 573, Condemning the abduction
of female students by armed militants from the terrorist group
known as Boko Haram in northeastern provinces of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria; H.R. 4573, To protect children from
exploitation, especially sex trafficking in tourism, by
providing advance notice of intended travel by registered
child-sex offenders outside the United States to the government
of the country of destination, requesting foreign governments
to notify the United States when a known child-sex offender is
seeking to enter the United States, and for other purposes; and
H.R. 4587, To impose targeted sanctions on individuals
responsible for carrying out or ordering human rights abuses
against citizens of Venezuela, and for other purposes.
May 20, 2014--The Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations. The
Honorable Roberta S. Jacobson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The
Honorable William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; and Ms. Elizabeth Hogan, Acting Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S.
Agency for International Development.
May 21, 2014--Boko Haram: The Growing Threat to
Schoolgirls, Nigeria, and Beyond. The Honorable Sarah Sewall,
Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human
Rights, U.S. Department of State; and Ms. Amanda J. Dory,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs, U.S.
Department of Defense.
May 29, 2014--Markup. H.R. 1771, North Korea Sanctions
Enforcement Act of 2013; H.R. 4449, Human Trafficking
Prevention Act; and H. Res. 600, Urging the Government of
Afghanistan, following a successful first round of the
presidential election on April 5, 2014, to pursue a
transparent, credible, and inclusive run-off presidential
election on June 14, 2014, while ensuring the safety of voters,
candidates, poll workers, and election observers.
June 10, 2014--Verifying Iran's Nuclear Compliance. The
Honorable Stephen G. Rademaker, National Security Advisor,
Bipartisan Policy Center (former Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Arms Control & Bureau of International Security and
Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State); Mr. John A.
Lauder, Senior Advisor, 20twenty Strategic Consulting, Inc.
(former Director, Nonproliferation Center, Intelligence
Community); Mr. Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University (former Deputy Director General,
International Atomic Energy Agency); and the Honorable Joseph
R. DeTrani, President, Intelligence and National Security
Alliance (former Director, National Counter Proliferation
Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence).
June 26, 2014--Markup. H.R. 4411, Hezbollah International
Financing Prevention Act of 2014; H.R. 4640, Western Hemisphere
Drug Policy Commission Act of 2014; H. Res. 435, Calling on the
government of Iran to fulfill their promises of assistance in
this case of Robert Levinson, one of the longest held United
States civilians in our Nation's history; H. Res. 588,
Concerning the suspension of exist permit issuance by the
Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for adopted
Congolese children seeking to depart the country with their
adoptive parents; H.R. 2283, To prioritize the fight against
human trafficking within the Department of State according to
congressional intent in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
of 2000 without increasing the size of the Federal Government,
and for other purposes; H. Res. 562, Expressing the sense of
the House of Representatives with respect to enhanced relations
with the Republic of Moldova and support for Moldova's
territorial integrity; H.R. 4653, Untied States Commission on
International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2014;
and H.R. 4347, Turkey Christian Churches Accountability Act.
July 9, 2014--Spotlighting Human Rights in Southeast Asia.
The Honorable Lorne W. Craner (former Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department
of State); The Honorable Tom Andrews, President and Chief
Executive Officer, Untied to End Genocide (former United States
Representative); Ms. Janet Nguyen, Supervisor, First District,
Orange County Board of Supervisors; and Thang D. Nguyen, Ph.D,
Executive Director, Boat People SOS.
July 10, 2014--The Future of International Civilian Nuclear
Cooperation. Mr. Henry D. Sokolski, Executive Director,
Nonproliferation Policy Education Center; Mr. Daniel S. Lipman,
Executive Director, Supplier Programs, Nuclear Energy
Institute; and Mr. Leonard S. Spector, Executive Director,
Washington, D.C. Office, James Martin Center for
Nonproliferation Studies.
July 16, 2014--Iran's Destabilizing Role in the Middle
East. Mr. Scott Modell, Senior Associate, Burke Chair in
Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Mr.
Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Middle
East Program, Council on Foreign Relations; and Natan B. Sachs,
Ph.D, Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The
Brookings Institution.
July 23, 2014--Terrorist March in Iraq: The U.S. Response.
Mr. Brett McGurk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq and Iran,
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and
Ms. Elissa Slotkin, Performing the Duties of the Principle
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department
of Defense.
July 29, 2014--Iran Nuclear Negotiations: From Extension to
Final Agreement? The Honorable Wendy R. Sherman, Under
Secretary for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and
the Honorable David S. Cohen, Under Secretary for Terrorism and
Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
July 30, 2014--Markup. H.R. 3398, Girls Count Act of 2014;
H.R. 5041, The Naftali Fraenkel Rewards for Justice Act of
2014; H.R. 5235, Emergency Iron Dome Replenishment Act; H. Res.
281, 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; and H. Res. 683,
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on the
current situation in Iraq and the urgent need to protect
religious minorities from persecution from the Sunni Islamist
insurgent and terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and
Levant (ISIL) as it expands its control over areas in
northwestern Iraq.
September 10, 2014--Libya's Descent. The Honorable Gerald
Feierstein, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
September 18, 2014--The ISIS Threat: Weighing the Obama
Administration's Response. The Honorable John F. Kerry,
Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State.
November 13, 2014--Combating Ebola in West Africa: The
International Response. The Honorable Rajiv Shah,
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; The
Honorable Bisa Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable
Michael D. Lumpkin, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special
Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, U.S. Department of
Defense; Major General James Lariviere, USMC, Deputy Director
for Politico-Military Affairs (Africa), Joint Chiefs of Staff,
U.S. Department of Defense; and Major General Nadja Y. West,
USA, Joint Staff Surgeon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S.
Department of Defense.
November 20, 2014--Markup. H.R. 2901, Senator Paul Simon
Water for the World Act of 2013; H.R. 5206, To allow Foreign
Service and other executive agency employees to designate
beneficiaries of their death benefits; H.R. 5241, Crimea
Annexation Non-recognition Act; H.R. 5656, Feed the Future
Global Food Security Act of 2014; H.R. 5685, Rewards for
Justice Congressional Notification Act of 2014; H.R. 5710,
Ebola Emergency Response Act; H. Res. 714, Reaffirming the
peaceful and collaborative resolution of maritime and
jurisdictional disputes in the South China Sea and the East
China Sea as provided by universally recognized principles of
international law, and reaffirming the strong support of the
United States Government for freedom of navigation and other
internationally lawful uses of sea and airspace in the Asia-
Pacific region; and H. Res. 758, Strongly condemning the
actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir
Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against
neighboring countries aimed at political and economic
domination.
December 10, 2014--Countering ISIS: Are We Making Progress?
The Honorable Brett McGurk, Deputy Special Presidential Envoy
for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, U.S. Department of
State.
B. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and
International Organizations
January 9, 2014--Will there be an African Economic
Community? Amadou Sy, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Africa Growth
Initiative, The Brookings Institution; Mr. Stephen Lande,
President, Manchester Trade; Peter Quartey, Ph.D., Senior
Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic
Research, University of Ghana; and Witney Schneidman, Ph.D.,
Nonresident Fellow, Africa Growth Initiative, The Brookings
Institution.
January 15, 2014--A Report on the G8 Dementia Summit.
Richard J. Hodes, M.D., Director, National Institute on Aging,
National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services; Mr. George Vradenburg, Chairman and Founder,
USAgainstAlzheimer's; and Mr. Harry Johns, President and Chief
Executive Officer, Alzheimer's Association.
January 27, 2014--Lessons Learned from Super Bowl
Preparations: Preventing International Human Trafficking at
Major Sporting Events. The Honorable Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-
at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons,
U.S. Department of State; Ms. Maria M. Odom, Chair, Blue
Campaign, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Ms. Polly
Hanson, Chief of Police, National Railroad Passenger
Corporation (AMTRAK); Ms. Nancy Rivard, President and Founder,
Airline Ambassadors International; Ms. Carol Smolenski,
Executive Director, End Child Prostitution and Trafficking-USA;
Ms. Letty Ashworth, General Manager of Global Diversity, Delta
Airlines; and Ms. Holly Smith, survivor of trafficking and
anti-trafficking advocate.
February 11, 2014--The Worldwide Persecution of Christians.
The Honorable Elliott Abrams, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom; Mr. John Allen, Associate
Editor, The Boston Globe; Ms. Tehmina Arora, Attorney, Alliance
Defending Freedom-India; Mr. Benedict Rogers, Team Leader for
East Asia, Christian Solidarity Worldwide; Mr. Jorge Lee
Galindo, Director, Impulso 18; Khataza Gondwe, Ph.D., Team
Leader for Africa and the Middle East, Christian Solidarity
Worldwide; and His Excellency, the Most Reverend Francis A.
Chullikatt, Permanent Observer, The Holy See Mission at the
United Nations.
February 26, 2014--U.S. Policy Toward Sudan and South
Sudan. The Honorable Donald Booth, Special Envoy to Sudan and
South Sudan, U.S. Department of State; Mr. John Prendergast,
Co-founder, Enough Project; Walid Phares, Ph.D., Co-Secretary
General, Transatlantic Legislative Group on Counter Terrorism;
and Mr. Adotei Akwei, Managing Director for Government
Relations, Amnesty International USA.
March 11, 2014--The Northern Ireland Peace Process Today:
Attempting to Deal with the Past. (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.) The
Honorable Richard N. Haass, Chair, Panel of Parties in the
Northern Ireland Executive; Ms. Geraldine Finucane, wife of
slain human rights attorney Patrick Finucane; Mr. Eugene
Devlin, victim of the Military Reaction Force; Ms. Julia Hall,
Expert on Criminal Justice and Counter-Terrorism in Europe,
Amnesty International; and The Baroness Nuala O'Loan, former
Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (appearing via
videoconference).
March 25, 2014--The First One Thousand Days: Development
Aid Programs to Bolster Health and Nutrition. Ms. Tjada D'Oyen
McKenna, Acting Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Food
Security, U.S. Agency for International Development; Ms. Lisa
Bos, Senior Policy Advisor for Health, Education, and Water,
Sanitation, and Hygiene, World Vision; Henry Perry, M.D.,
Ph.D., Senior Associate, Health Systems Program, Department of
International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns
Hopkins University; Ms. Carolyn Wetzel Chen, Chief Grant
Development Officer, Food for the Hungry, Inc.; Sophia Aguirre,
Ph.D., Chair, Integral Economic Development Management Program,
Catholic University of America; and Mehret Mandefro, M.D.,
Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Milken Institute School of
Public Health, The George Washington University.
April 29, 2014--Effective Accountability: Tier Rankings in
the Fight Against Human Trafficking. The Honorable Mark Lagon,
Global Politics 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; Mr. Brian Campbell, Director of Policy and Legal
Programs, International Labor Rights Forum; Mr. Blair Burns,
Vice President of Regional Operations, Southeast Asia,
International Justice Mission; Ms. Nathalie Lummert, Director,
Special Programs, Migration and Refugee Services, U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops; and Wakar Uddin, Ph.D.,
Director General, Arakan Rohingya Union.
May 1, 2014--The Central African Republic: From ``Pre-
genocide'' to Genocide? The Honorable Robert P. Jackson,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Anne Richard,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees and
Migration, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Scott Campbell,
Regional Director for Central Africa, Catholic Relief Services;
Ms. Madeline Rose, Policy & Advocacy Advisor, Mercy Corps; Mr.
Kasper Agger, Field Researcher, Enough Project; and the
Honorable Robin Renee Sanders, Chief Executive Officer, FEEEDS
Advocacy Initiative.
May 22, 2014--Protecting Religious Freedom: U.S. Efforts to
Hold Accountable Countries of Particular Concern. Robert P.
George, Ph.D., Chairman, U.S. Commission on International
Religious Freedom; Mr. Kenneth E. Bowers, Secretary, National
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaa'iis of the United States; Mr.
Amjad M. Khan, National Director of Public Affairs, Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community USA; and Pastor Bob Fu, Founder and President,
ChinaAid Association.
May 30, 2014--Tiananmen 25 Years Later: Leaders Who Were
There. Ms. Chai Ling, Founder, All Girls Allowed; Yang Jianli,
Ph.D., President, Initiatives for China; Major Yan Xiong, USA,
Author; Mr. Zhou Fengsuo, Co-Founder, Humanitarian China; and
Mr. Chen Qinglin, Activist.
June 11, 2014--The Ongoing Struggle Against Boko Haram. J.
Peter Pham, Ph.D., Director, Africa Center, Atlantic Council;
Mr. Emmanuel Ogebe, Manager, Justice for Jos Project, Jubilee
Campaign USA; Mr. Anslem John-Miller, Representative to the
U.S. Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People; and the
Honorable Robin Renee Sanders Chief Executive Officer, FEEEDS
Advocacy Initiative, former United States Ambassador to
Nigeria.
June 18, 2014--Markup. H.R. 4653, To reauthorize the United
States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and for
other purposes; H. Res. 503, Expressing the sense of the House
of Representatives regarding the need to bring the South Sudan
conflict to a sustainable and lasting end and to promote
reconciliation of longstanding and recent grievances to allow
for a peaceful society with good governance; and H. Res. 588,
Concerning the suspension of exit permit issuance by the
Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo for adopted
Congolese children seeking to depart the country with their
adoptive parents.
June 18, 2014--Human Rights Abuses and Crimes Against
Humanity in North Korea. The Honorable Andrew Natsios, Co-
Chair, The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Shin
Chang-hoon, Ph.D, Director, Center for Global Governance, Asan
Institute for Policy Studies; Mr. Shin Dong-hyuk, Survivor of
North Korean prison camp; and the Honorable Lee Jong Hoon,
Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights, Republic of Korea.
June 19, 2014--One Year Under Rouhani: Iran's Abysmal Human
Rights Record. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the
Middle East and North Africa.) Robert P. George, Ph.D.,
Chairman, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom;
Ms. Cler Baheri, member of the Baha'i Community; Mr. Hossein
Alizadeh, Regional Program Coordinator for the Middle East and
North Africa, International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights
Commission; and Mr. Amir Hossein Etemadi, former Iranian
political prisoner.
July 10, 2014--Human Rights Vetting: Nigeria and Beyond.
Colonel Peter Aubrey, USA, Retired, President, Strategic
Opportunities International; Ms. Lauren Ploch Blanchard,
Specialist in African Affairs, Congressional Research Service;
Ms. Elisa Massimino, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Human Rights First; Mr. Stephen Rickard, Director, Washington
Office, Open Society Foundations; and Ms. Sarah Margon,
Washington Director, Human Rights Watch.
July 16, 2014--The Growing Crisis of Africa's Orphans. The
Honorable Robert P. Jackson, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
The Honorable Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau
for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S.
Agency for International Development; Ms. Kelly Dempsey,
General Counsel and Director of Advocacy and Outreach, Both
Ends Burning; Shimwaayi Muntemba, Ph.D., Founder, Zambia
Orphans of AIDS; Mrs. Jovana Jones, adoptive mother of a
Congolese child; and Ms. Muluemebet Chekol Hunegnaw, Senior
Director, Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management
Program Quality and Impact Department, International Programs,
Save the Children.
July 23, 2014--The Troubling Case of Meriam Ibrahim. Zuhdi
Jasser, M.D., Commissioner, United States Commission on
International Religious Freedom; The Honorable Tony Perkins,
President, Family Research Council; The Honorable Grover Joseph
Rees, former General Counsel, U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service; and Mr. Omer Ismail, Senior Policy
Advisor, Enough Project.
July 24, 2014--The Global Challenge of Autism. Mr. Jose H.
Velasco, Vice President of Product Management and Head of
Autism at Work Initiative, SAP; Mr. Thorkil Sonne, Founder and
Chairman, Specialisterne; Ms. Theresa Hussman, Board Member,
Autism Society; Mr. Michael Rosanoff, Associate Director,
Public Health Research, Autism Speaks; and Mr. Ron Suskind,
Author.
August 7, 2014--Combating the Ebola Threat. Tom Frieden,
M.D., Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Ariel Pablos-Meendez, M.D., Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development; The
Honorable Bisa Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Ken Isaacs, Vice
President of Program and Government Relations, Samaritan's
Purse; and Frank Glover, M.D., Missionary, SIM.
September 10, 2014--Genocidal Attacks Against Christian and
Other Religious Minorities in Syria and Iraq. (Jointly held
with the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.) The
Honorable Tom Malinowski, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State;
The Honorable Anne Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State;
Mr. Thomas Staal, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau
for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S.
Agency for International Development; His Excellency Ibrahim N.
Ibrahim, Bishop Emeritus, Chaldean Eparchy of St. Thomas the
Apostle; The Honorable Peter Galbraith, former Advisor to the
Kurdistan Regional Government; Her Excellency Pascale Esho
Warda, President, Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, former
Minister of Immigration and Refugees in the Iraqi Government;
and Thomas Farr, Ph.D., Director, Religious Freedom Project,
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs,
Georgetown University.
September 17, 2014--Global Efforts to Fight Ebola. Anthony
S. Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services; Luciana Borio, M.D.,
Director, Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats,
Office of the Chief Scientist, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services;
The Honorable Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator, Bureau
for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S.
Agency for International Development; Beth P. Bell, M.D.
Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious
Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
Department of Health & Human Services; Kent Brantly, M.D.,
Medical Missionary, Samaritan's Purse, survivor of Ebola;
Chinua Akukwe, M.D., Chair, Africa Working Group, National
Academy of Public Administration; Mr. Ted Alemayhu, Founder and
Executive Chairman, US Doctors for Africa; and Dougbeh Chris
Nyan, M.D., Director of the Secretariat, Diaspora Liberian
Emergency Response Task Force on the Ebola Crisis.
November 14, 2014--The Future of Energy in Africa. Robert
F. Ichord, Jr., Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Eric
G. Postel, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Africa,
U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr. Jonathan Elkind,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of International Affairs,
U.S. Department of Energy; Mr. Walker A. Williams, President
and Chief Executive Officer, Leadership Africa USA; and Ms.
Dianne R. Sutherland, Owner and Publisher, Petroleum Africa
Magazine (appearing via videoconference).
November 18, 2014--Fighting Ebola: A Ground-Level View. Mr.
Rabih Torbay, Senior Vice President for International
Operations, International Medical Corps; Mr. Brett Sedgewick,
Technical Advisor for Food Security and Livelihoods, Global
Communities; and Darius Mans, Ph.D., President, Africare.
December 4, 2014--Is Academic Freedom Threatened by China's
Influence on U.S. Universities? Perry Link, Ph.D.,
Chancellorial Chair for Innovative Teaching, University of
California, Riverside; Thomas Cushman, Ph.D., Deffenbaugh de
Hoyos Carlson Chair in the Social Sciences, Wellesley College;
Xia Yeliang, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Liberty
and Prosperity, Cato Institute; and Sophie Richardson, Ph.D.,
China Director, Human Rights Watch.
C. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
January 14, 2014--Maritime Sovereignty in the East and
South China Seas. (Jointly held with the Armed Services
Committee's Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces.)
Ms. Bonnie S. Glaser, Senior Advisor for Asia, Freeman Chair in
China Studies, Senior Associate, Pacific Forum, Center for
Strategic and International Studies; Mr. Peter Dutton,
Professor and Director, China Maritime Studies Institute, Naval
War College; and Mr. Jeff M. Smith, Director of South Asia
Programs, Kraemer Strategy Fellow, American Foreign Policy
Council.
February 5, 2014--America's Future in Asia: From
Rebalancing to Managing Sovereignty Disputes. The Honorable
Daniel R. Russel, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and
Pacific Affairs, Department of State.
March 26, 2014--The Shocking Truth about North Korean
Tyranny. Ms. Grace Jo, survivor of North Korean human rights
abuses; Mr. Greg Scarlatoiu, Executive Director, Committee for
Human Rights in North Korea; and Mr. Bruce Klingner, Senior
Research Fellow, Northeast Asia, The Heritage Foundation.
April 30, 2014--Assessing U.S. Foreign Assistance
Priorities in South Asia. The Honorable Nisha Biswal, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; and Ms. Denise Rollins, Acting Assistant
Secretary, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
May 20, 2014--Resourcing the Pivot to Asia: East Asia and
Pacific FY 2015 Budget Priorities. The Honorable Daniel R.
Russel, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and Ms. Denise Rollins,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency
for International Development.
May 29, 2014-- Energy Needs in Asia: The U.S. Liquefied
Natural Gas Option. Mr. Mikkal E. Herberg, Research Director,
Energy Security Program, The National Bureau of Asian Research;
Ms. Jane Nakano, Fellow, Energy and National Security Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Ms. Diane
Leopold, President, Dominion Energy, Dominion.
June 24, 2014-- Thailand: A Democracy in Peril. The
Honorable Scot Marciel, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of
State.
July 24, 2014-- U.S.-India Relations Under the Modi
Government. The Honorable Nisha Biswal, Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; and the Honorable Arun Kumar, Director General of the
U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service and Assistant Secretary for
Global Markets, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce.
July 30, 2014-- Twenty-Years of U.S. Policy on North Korea:
From Agreed Framework to Strategic Patience. The Honorable Glyn
Davies, Special Representative, Bureau of East Asian and
Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and the Honorable
Robert King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights,
Office of the Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea,
U.S. Department of State.
September 9, 2014--Markup. H.R. 4377, To place conditions
on assistance to the Government of Burma.
September 17, 2014--A New Era of U.S.-China Relations? Mr.
Christopher K. Johnson, Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in
China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies;
and Mr. Gordon Chang, Author.
September 17, 2014--Markup. H. Res. 714, Reaffirming the
peaceful and collaborative resolution of maritime and
jurisdictional disputes in the South China Sea and the East
China Sea as provided for by universally recognized principles
of international law, and reaffirming the strong support of the
United States Government for freedom of navigation and other
internationally lawful uses of sea and airspace in the Asia-
Pacific region.
December 2, 2014-- Hong Kong: A Broken Promise? Mr. Dean
Cheng, Senior Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, The Davis
Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The
Heritage Foundation; Sophie Richardson, Ph.D., China Director,
Human Rights Watch; and Ms. Kelley Currie, Senior Fellow,
Project 2049 Institute.
December 10, 2014--After the Withdrawal: The Way Forward in
Afghanistan and Pakistan (Part III). (Jointly held with
Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.) The
Honorable Jarret Blanc, Deputy Special Representative for
Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Department of State; The
Honorable Donald L. Sampler, Assistant to the Administrator,
Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for
International Development; and Mr. James Soiles, Deputy Chief
of Operations, Office of Global Enforcement, Drug Enforcement
Administration, U.S. Department of Justice.
D. Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
January 16, 2014--Water as a Geopolitical Threat. Mr.
Jeremy M. Sharp, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs, Foreign
Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research
Service; Ms. Maura Moynihan, Author and Activist; Mr. Gordon G.
Chang, Author; and Mr. David Goodtree, Co-Chair and Founder,
Symposium on Water Innovation.
March 11, 2014--The Northern Ireland Peace Process Today:
Attempting to Deal with the Past. (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and
International Organizations.) The Honorable Richard N. Haass,
Chair, Panel of Parties in the Northern Ireland Executive; Ms.
Geraldine Finucane, wife of slain human rights attorney Patrick
Finucane; Mr. Eugene Devlin, victim of the Military Reaction
Force; Ms. Julia Hall, Expert on Criminal Justice and Counter-
Terrorism in Europe, Amnesty International; and The Baroness
Nuala O'Loan, former Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
(appearing via videoconference).
April 29, 2014--U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Negotiations:
Ukraine and Beyond. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on
Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.) Ms. Anita E. Friedt,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear and Strategic
Policy, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance,
U.S. Department of State; and Mr. Brent Hartley, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs,
U.S. Department of State.
May 7, 2014--Assessing the Biological Weapons Threat:
Russia and Beyond. Amy Smithson, Ph.D. Senior Fellow, James
Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies; David R. Franz,
Ph.D. (former Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute
of Infectious Diseases); Christopher Davis, M.D. (former
member, Defense Intelligence Staff of the United Kingdom); and
Mr. Milton Leitenberg, Senior Research Scholar Center for
International and Security Studies at Maryland School of Public
Policy, University of Maryland.
May 21, 2014--The Development of Energy Resources in
Central Asia. The Honorable Denis Shea, Chairman, U.S-China
Economic and Security Review Commission; Mr. Charlie Santos,
Chairman, Uzbekistan Investment Group, Inc.; Mr. David Merkel
(former Director, Europe, Eurasia, National Security Council);
and Mr. Jeffrey Mankoff, Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and
Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International
Studies.
June 25, 2014--Reviewing the Administration's FY 2015
Budget Request for Europe and Eurasia. Mr. Dan Rosenblum,
Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr.
Jonathan Katz, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Europe and Eurasia, U.S. Agency for International Development;
and Ms. Denise Rollins, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau for
Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development.
July 15, 2014--The Future of Turkish Democracy. Mr. Nate
Schenkkan, Program Officer, Eurasia Programs, Freedom House;
Elizabeth H. Prodromou, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Professor of
Conflict Resolution, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University; Soner Cagaptay, Ph.D., Beyer Family Fellow
and Director, Turkish Research Program, The Washington
Institute for Near East Policy; Kilic Kanat, Ph.D., Non-
Resident Scholar, Foundation for Political, Economic, and
Social Research (SETA); and Mr. Hakan Tasci, Executive
Director, Tuskon-US.
July 29, 2014--The Shootdown of Malaysian Flight 17 and the
Escalating Crisis in Ukraine. (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.) Mr.
Ian Brzezinski, Resident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center
on International Security, Atlantic Council; Mr. Anthony
Salvia, Executive Director, American Institute in Ukraine; The
Honorable William B. Taylor, Vice President for Middle East and
Africa, United States Institute of Peace (former United States
Ambassador to Ukraine); and Leon Aron, Ph.D., Resident Scholar
and Director of Russian Studies, The American Enterprise
Institute.
September 18, 2014--The Struggles of Recovering Assets for
Holocaust Survivors. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the
Middle East and North Africa.) Mr. Jack Rubin, Holocaust
survivor; Ms. Klara Firestone, daughter of Holocaust survivors;
Barbara Paris, M.D., physician who focuses on the care of
Holocaust survivors; and Ms. Eugenie Lieberman, daughter of
Holocaust survivor.
September 19, 2014--Islamist Foreign Fighters Returning
Home and the Threat to Europe. Mr. Thomas Joscelyn, Senior
Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Ms. Farah
Pandith, Fisher Family Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy
School of Government (former U.S. Special Representative to
Muslim Communities).
November 18, 2014--Water Sharing Conflicts and the Threat
to International Peace. Paul Sullivan, Ph.D., Professor of
Economics, National Defense University; Amanda Wooden, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Bucknell
University; and Kathleen Kuehnast, Ph.D., Director, Center for
Gender & Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace.
December 8, 2014--The United States as an Arctic Nation:
Opportunities in the High North. Admiral Robert Papp, Jr.,
USCG, Retired, U.S. Special Representative for the Arctic, U.S.
Department of State; Scott Borgerson, Ph.D., Chief Executive
Officer, Cargo Metrics Technologies; and Mr. Andrew Holland,
Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate, American Security
Project.
E. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa
January 28, 2014--Implementation of the Iran Nuclear Deal.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation, and Trade.) The Honorable Mark D. Wallace,
Chief Executive Officer, United Against Nuclear Iran (former
United States Ambassador to the United Nations); Mr. Gregory S.
Jones, Senior Researcher, Nonproliferation Policy Education
Center; Mr. Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs, Harvard University (former
Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy
Agency); and Mr. David Albright, Founder and President,
Institute for Science and International Security.
February 5, 2014--U.S. Counternarcotics Operations in
Afghanistan. The Honorable William R. Brownfield, Assistant
Secretary of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. James L.
Capra, Chief of Operations, U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration; and Ms. Erin Logan, Principal Director for
Counternarcotics and Global Threats, Office of the Under
Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense.
March 4, 2014--Iran's Support for Terrorism Worldwide.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation, and Trade.) The Honorable Pete Hoekstra,
Shillman Senior Fellow, The Investigative Project on Terrorism
(former Chairman of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence); Matthew Levitt, Ph.D., Director and Fromer-
Wexler Fellow, Stein Program on Counterterrorism and
Intelligence, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy;
and Mr. J. Matthew McInnis, Resident Fellow, American
Enterprise Institute.
April 8, 2014--Lebanon's Security Challenges and U.S.
Interests. Mr. Lawrence Silverman, Acting Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; and Matthew Spence, Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Middle East Policy, U.S. Department of Defense.
April 9, 2014--U.S. Policy Towards Morocco. Mr. William
Roebuck, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Egypt and
Maghreb Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; and Ms. Alina Romanowski, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S. Agency for
International Development.
April 29, 2014--The Administration's FY 2015 MENA Budget
Request: Priorities, Objectives and Challenges. The Honorable
Anne W. Patterson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and Ms. Alina L. Romanowski,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East,
U.S. Agency for International Development.
May 8, 2014--The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the
Peace Process: What's Next? Jonathan Schanzer, Ph.D., Vice
President for Research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies;
Mr. James Prince, Co-founder and President, The Democracy
Council; and the Honorable Robert Wexler, President, S. Daniel
Abraham Center for Middle East Peace (former Member of
Congress).
May 21, 2014--The Humanitarian Crisis in Syria: Views from
the Ground. Ms. Andrea Koppel, Vice President of Global
Engagement and Policy, Mercy Corps; Ms. Holly Solberg, Director
of Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance, CARE; Ms. Pia Wanek,
Director, Office of Humanitarian Assistance, Global
Communities; Mr. Zaher Sahloul, M.D., President, Syrian
American Medical Society; and Ms. Bernice Romero, Senior
Director of Policy and Advocacy, Save the Children.
May 22, 2014--The Gulf Cooperation Council: Deepening Rifts
and Emerging Challenges. David Andrew Weinberg, Ph.D., Senior
Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Mr. Simon
Henderson, Baker Fellow and Director, Gulf and Energy Policy
Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and the
Honorable Stephen A. Seche, Senior Analyst, Dentons US LLP
(former Ambassador of the United States to Yemen).
June 10, 2014--Examining U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in
Afghanistan. The Honorable John F. Sopko, Special Inspector
General for Afghanistan Reconstruction; and Mr. Charles Michael
Johnson, Jr., Director, International Security &
Counterterrorism Issues, International Affairs & Trade Team,
U.S. Government Accountability Office.
June 11, 2014--Assessing Energy Priorities in the Middle
East and North Africa. Mr. Amos J. Hochstein, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Energy Diplomacy, Bureau of Energy Resources,
U.S. Department of State.
June 18, 2014--The Bergdahl Exchange: Implications for U.S.
National Security and the Fight Against Terrorism. (Jointly
held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and
Trade.) Mr. Mike Waltz, Senior National Security Fellow, New
America Foundation (commanded a Special Forces' Company in
Eastern Afghanistan in 2009); Spc. Cody Full, USA, Retired
(served with Sgt. Bergdahl in Blackfoot Company, Second
Platoon); Mr. Andy Andrews, father of deceased Second
Lieutenant, USA, Darryn Andrews; and Mark Jacobson, Ph.D.,
Senior Advisor, Truman National Security Project.
June 19, 2014--One Year Under Rouhani: Iran's Abysmal Human
Rights Record. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Africa,
Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International
Organizations.) Robert P. George, Ph.D., Chairman, U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom; Ms. Cler Baheri,
member of the Baha'i Community; Mr. Hossein Alizadeh, Regional
Program Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa,
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission; and Mr.
Amir Hossein Etemadi, former Iranian political prisoner.
June 25, 2014--Libya at a Crossroads: A Faltering
Transition. The Honorable Anne W. Patterson, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; and the Honorable Derek Chollet, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs, U.S. Department of
Defense.
July 15, 2014--The Rise of ISIL: Iraq and Beyond. (Jointly
held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and
Trade.) The Honorable James Jeffrey, Philip Solondz
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Washington Institute for
Near East Policy (former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq); General Jack
Keane, USA, Retired, Chairman of the Board, Institute for the
Study of War; Mr. Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute;
and Mr. Michael Eisenstadt, Senior Fellow and Director of the
Military and Security Studies Program, The Washington Institute
for Near East Policy.
July 24, 2014--The Struggle for Civil Society in Egypt. Mr.
Charles Michael Johnson, Jr., Director, International Security
& Counterterrorism Issues, International Affairs & Trade Team,
U.S. Government Accountability Office; Mr. Charles Dunne,
Director, Middle East and North Africa Programs, Freedom House;
Mr. Sam LaHood, former Egypt Country Director, International
Republican Institute; Mr. Patrick Butler, Vice President,
Programs, International Center for Journalists; and Ms. Lila
Jaafar, Senior Program Manager, National Democratic Institute
September 9, 2014--Hamas' Benefactors: A Network of Terror.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation, and Trade.) Jonathan Schanzer, Ph.D., Vice
President for Research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies;
Mr. Avi Jorisch, Founder, Red Cell Intelligence Group (former
Policy Advisor, Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence,
U.S. Department of the Treasury); and Steven A. Cook, Ph.D.,
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies,
Council on Foreign Relations.
September 10, 2014--Genocidal Attacks Against Christian and
Other Religious Minorities in Syria and Iraq. (Jointly held
with the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human
Rights, and International Organizations.) The Honorable Tom
Malinowski, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Anne
Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees,
and Migration, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Thomas Staal,
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy,
Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for
International Development; His Excellency Ibrahim N. Ibrahim,
Bishop Emeritus, Chaldean Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle;
The Honorable Peter Galbraith, former Advisor to the Kurdistan
Regional Government; Her Excellency Pascale Esho Warda,
President, Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, former Minister
of Immigration and Refugees in the Iraqi Government; and Thomas
Farr, Ph.D., Director, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley
Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown
University.
September 18, 2014--The Struggles of Recovering Assets for
Holocaust Survivors. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on
Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.) Mr. Jack Rubin,
Holocaust survivor; Ms. Klara Firestone, daughter of Holocaust
survivors; Barbara Paris, M.D., physician who focuses on the
care of Holocaust survivors; and Ms. Eugenie Lieberman,
daughter of Holocaust survivor.
November 19, 2014--Next Steps for U.S. Foreign Policy on
Syria and Iraq. The Honorable Robert Stephen Ford, Senior
Fellow, Middle East Institute (former U.S. Ambassador to
Syria); The Honorable Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle
Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Kimberly Kagan,
Ph.D., Founder and President, Institute for the Study of War;
and Steven Heydemann, Ph.D., Vice President of Applied Research
on Conflict, United States Institute of Peace.
November 20, 2014--Examining What a Nuclear Iran Deal Means
for Global Security. General Michael Hayden, USAF, Retired,
Principal, The Chertoff Group (former Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency); Mr. Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director,
Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Mr. Karim
Sadjadpour, Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace.
December 2, 2014--ISIS and the Threat from Foreign
Fighters. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation, and Trade.) The Honorable Robert Bradtke,
Senior Advisor for Partner Engagement on Syria Foreign
Fighters, U.S. Department of State; and Mr. Tom Warrick, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism Policy, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
December 10, 2014--After the Withdrawal: The Way Forward in
Afghanistan and Pakistan (Part III). (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.) The Honorable Jarret
Blanc, Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and
Pakistan, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Daniel L.
Sampler, Assistant to the Administrator, Office of Afghanistan
and Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for International
Development; and Mr. James Soiles, Deputy Chief of Operations,
Office of Global Enforcement, Drug Enforcement Administration,
U.S. Department of Justice.
F. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
January 28, 2014--Implementation of the Iran Nuclear Deal.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa.) The Honorable Mark D. Wallace, Chief Executive
Officer, United Against Nuclear Iran (former United States
Ambassador to the United Nations); Mr. Gregory S. Jones, Senior
Researcher, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center; Mr. Olli
Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, Harvard University (former Deputy
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency);
and Mr. David Albright, Founder and President, Institute for
Science and International Security.
February 4, 2014--Terrorist Groups in Latin America: The
Changing Landscape. Gino Costa, Ph.D., President, Ciudad
Nuestra; Ms. Celina B. Realuyo, William J. Perry Center for
Hemispheric Defense Studies, Professor of Practice of National
Security Affairs, National Defense University; Mr. Douglas
Farah, Senior Associate, Americas Program, Center for Strategic
and International Studies; and Mr. Michael Shifter, President,
Inter-American Dialogue.
March 4, 2014--Iran's Support for Terrorism Worldwide.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa.) The Honorable Pete Hoekstra, Shillman Senior
Fellow, The Investigative Project on Terrorism (former Chairman
of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence);
Matthew Levitt, Ph.D., Director and Fromer-Wexler Fellow, Stein
Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, The Washington
Institute for Near East Policy; and Mr. J. Matthew McInnis,
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
March 5, 2014--Threats to Israel: Terrorist Funding and
Trade Boycotts. Mr. Edwin Black, Author; David Pollock, Ph.D.,
Kaufman Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy;
and Mr. Steven Perles, Founder and Senior Partner, Perles Law
Firm, P.C.
April 2, 2014--The Crude Truth: Evaluating U.S. Energy
Trade Policy. The Honorable Lisa Murkowski, United States
Senate; Mr. Michael Jennings, Chief Executive Officer and
President, HollyFrontier Corporation; Mr. Erik Milito,
Director, Upstream and Industry Operations, American Petroleum
Institute; Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., Senior Director,
Center for Energy Studies, James A Baker III Institute for
Public Policy; and Ms. Deborah Gordon, Senior Associate, Energy
and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace.
April 8, 2014--Is al-Qaeda Winning? Grading the
Administration's Counterterrorism Policy. The Honorable Joseph
Lieberman (former United States Senator); The Honorable Jane
Harman Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer, The
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (former Member
of Congress); 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 for Public Policy Research; and Mr.
Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The
Brookings Institution.
April 29, 2014--U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Negotiations:
Ukraine and Beyond. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on
Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.) Ms. Anita E. Friedt,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear and Strategic
Policy, Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance,
U.S. Department of State; and Mr. Brent Hartley, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs,
U.S. Department of State.
May 20, 2014--Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan: An
Enduring Threat. Mr. David Sedney (former Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia, U.S.
Department of Defense); The Honorable Michael A. Sheehan,
Distinguished Chair, Combating Terrorism Center, United States
Military Academy at West Point; and Mr. Thomas Joscelyn, Senior
Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
June 10, 2014--The State Department's Counterterrorism
Bureau: Budget, Programs, and Evaluation. The Honorable Tina
Kaidanow, Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State.
June 18, 2014--The Bergdahl Exchange: Implications for U.S.
National Security and the Fight Against Terrorism. (Jointly
held with the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa.) Mr. Mike Waltz, Senior National Security Fellow, New
America Foundation (commanded a Special Forces' Company in
Eastern Afghanistan in 2009); Spc. Cody Full, USA, Retired
(served with Sgt. Bergdahl in Blackfoot Company, Second
Platoon); Mr. Andy Andrews, father of deceased Second
Lieutenant, USA, Darryn Andrews; and Mark Jacobson, Ph.D.,
Senior Advisor, Truman National Security Project.
July 15, 2014--The Rise of ISIL: Iraq and Beyond. (Jointly
held with the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa.) The Honorable James Jeffrey, Philip Solondz
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Washington Institute for
Near East Policy (former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq); General Jack
Keane, USA, Retired, Chairman of the Board, Institute for the
Study of War; Mr. Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute;
and Mr. Michael Eisenstadt, Senior Fellow and Director of the
Military and Security Studies Program, The Washington Institute
for Near East Policy.
July 29, 2014--The Shootdown of Malaysian Flight 17 and the
Escalating Crisis in Ukraine (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.) Mr. Ian
Brzezinski, Resident Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on
International Security, Atlantic Council; Mr. Anthony Salvia,
Executive Director, American Institute in Ukraine; The
Honorable William B. Taylor, Vice President for Middle East and
Africa, United States Institute of Peace (former United States
Ambassador to Ukraine); and Leon Aron, Ph.D., Resident Scholar
and Director of Russian Studies, The American Enterprise
Institute.
September 9, 2014--Hamas' Benefactors: A Network of Terror.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa.) Jonathan Schanzer, Ph.D., Vice President for
Research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Mr. Avi
Jorisch, Founder, Red Cell Intelligence Group (former Policy
Advisor, Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S.
Department of the Treasury); and Steven A. Cook, Ph.D., Hasib
J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on
Foreign Relations.
November 18, 2014--Iranian Nuclear Talks: Negotiating a Bad
Deal? Ray Takeyh, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern
Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Mr. J. Matthew McInnis,
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; and Mr. David
Albright, President, Institute for Science and International
Security.
December 2, 2014--ISIS and the Threat from Foreign
Fighters. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Middle
East and North Africa.) The Honorable Robert Bradtke, Senior
Advisor for Partner Engagement on Syria Foreign Fighters, U.S.
Department of State; and Mr. Tom Warrick, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Counterterrorism Policy, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security.
December 10, 2014--Russian Arms Control Cheating and the
Administration's Responses. (Jointly held with the Armed
Services Committee's Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.) The
Honorable Rose Gottemoeller, Under Secretary for Arms Control
and International Security, U.S. Department of State; and the
Honorable Brian McKeon, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for
Policy, U.S. Department of Defense.
G. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
January 25, 2014--NAFTA at Twenty: Accomplishments,
Challenges, and the Way Forward. The Honorable Carla A. Hills,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company
International Consultants; The Honorable David Dreier,
Chairman, Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands; Mr. Eric
Farnsworth, Vice President, Council of the Americas and
Americas Society; Mr. Mark T. Elliot, Executive Vice President,
Global Intellectual Property Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce;
and Duncan Wood, Ph.D., Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars.
March 25, 2014--U.S. Disengagement from Latin America:
Compromised Security and Economic Interests. The Honorable Otto
J. Reich, President, Otto Reich Associates, LLC; Mr. Ilan I.
Berman, Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council; Mr.
Mauricio Claver-Carone, Executive Director, Cuba Democracy
Advocates; and Mr. Michael Shifter, President, Inter-American
Dialogue.
April 9, 2014--Advancing U.S. Interests in the Western
Hemisphere: The FY 2015 Foreign Affairs Budget. The Honorable
Roberta S. Jacobson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Western
Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and Ms. Elizabeth
Hogan, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America
and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development.
April 29, 2014--Confronting Transnational Drug Smuggling:
An Assessment of Regional Partnerships. (Jointly held with the
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.) General John F.
Kelly, USMC, Commander, Southern Command, U.S. Department of
Defense; Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., USCG, Commandant, Coast
Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and the Honorable
Luis E. Arreaga, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S.
Department of State.
June 25, 2014--Children Migrating from Central America:
Solving a Humanitarian Crisis. Mr. Francisco Palmieri, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Central America and the Caribbean,
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
and Mr. Mark Lopes, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
July 23, 2014--U.S.-Dominican Republic Relations:
Bolstering Economic Growth and Energy Independence. Andrees R.
Gluski, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, The AES
Corporation; Mr. Roberto AAlvarez (former Ambassador of the
Dominican Republic on the Council of the Organization of
American States); Mr. Santiago A. Canton, Executive Director,
RFK Partners for Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Center for
Justice and Human Rights; and Flavio Dariio Espinal, Ph.D.,
Founder and President, Flavio Dariio Espinal & Asociados
(former Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United
States).
July 30, 2014--Building Prosperity in Latin America:
Investor Confidence in the Rule of Law. The Honorable James K.
Glassman, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
(former Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public
Affairs, U.S. Department of State); Mr. Paul M. Barrett,
Author; and the Honorable Jose W. Fernandez, Partner, Gibson,
Dunn, & Crutcher LLP (former Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of
State).
October 1, 2014--Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi: Our Marine in
Mexican Custody. Mrs. Jill Tahmooressi, mother of Sergeant
Andrew Tahmooressi; Lieutenant Commander Montel B. Williams,
USN, Retired, Veterans Advocate; Sergeant Robert Buchanan,
USMC, Retired (served with Sergeant Tahmooressi in
Afghanistan); and Mr. Pete Hegseth, Chief Executive Officer,
Concerned Veterans for America.
November 18, 2014--Unaccompanied Alien Children: Pressing
the Administration for a Strategy. The Honorable Roberta S.
Jacobson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Western Hemisphere
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Elizabeth Hogan, Acting
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the
Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr.
Robert N. Kaplan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Inter-
American Foundation; and Ms. Catherine Wiesner, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and
Migration, U.S. Department of State.
H. Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Mismanagement,
and Oversight Hearings
January 15, 2014--Full Committee: South Sudan's Broken
Promise? The Honorable Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
and the Honorable Earl W. Gast. Assistant Administrator, Bureau
for Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development.
January 25, 2014--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
NAFTA at Twenty: Accomplishments, Challenges, and the Way
Forward. The Honorable Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Hills & Company International Consultants;
The Honorable David Dreier, Chairman, Annenberg-Dreier
Commission at Sunnylands; Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice President,
Council of the Americas and Americas Society; Mr. Mark T.
Elliot, Executive Vice President, Global Intellectual Property
Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and Duncan Wood, Ph.D.,
Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars.
January 28, 2014--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and
Trade: Implementation of the Iran Nuclear Deal. The Honorable
Mark D. Wallace, Chief Executive Officer, United Against
Nuclear Iran (former United States Ambassador to the United
Nations); Mr. Gregory S. Jones, Senior Researcher,
Nonproliferation Policy Education Center; Mr. Olli Heinonen,
Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs, Harvard University (former Deputy Director General of
the International Atomic Energy Agency); and Mr. David
Albright, Founder and President, Institute for Science and
International Security.
February 5, 2014--Full Committee: Al-Qaeda's Resurgence in
Iraq: A Threat to U.S. Interests. Mr. Brett McGurk, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Iraq and Iran, Bureau of Near Eastern
Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
February 26, 2014--Full Committee: International Wildlife
Trafficking Threats to Conservation and National Security. The
Honorable Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Daniel M. Ashe,
Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of
the Interior; and Mr. Robert G. Dreher, Acting Assistant
Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division,
U.S. Department of Justice.
March 6, 2014-- Full Committee: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward
Ukraine. Mr. Eric Rubin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The
Honorable Paige Alexander, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Europe and Eurasia, U.S. Agency for International Development;
and Mr. Daleep Singh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and
Eurasia, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
March 11, 2014--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations and
Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats: The
Northern Ireland Peace Process Today: Attempting to Deal with
the Past. The Honorable Richard N. Haass, Chair, Panel of
Parties in the Northern Ireland Executive; Ms. Geraldine
Finucane, wife of slain human rights attorney Patrick Finucane;
Mr. Eugene Devlin, victim of the Military Reaction Force; Ms.
Julia Hall, Expert on Criminal Justice and Counter-Terrorism in
Europe, Amnesty International; and The Baroness Nuala O'Loan,
former Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (appearing via
videoconference).
March 13, 2014--Full Committee: Advancing U.S. Interests
Abroad: The FY 2015 Foreign Affairs Budget. The Honorable John
F. Kerry, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State.
March 14, 2014--Full Committee: The Promise of the Taiwan
Relations Act. Mr. Kin Moy, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
March 25, 2014--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: The First
One Thousand Days: Development Aid Programs to Bolster Health
and Nutrition. Ms. Tjada D'Oyen McKenna, Acting Assistant to
the Administrator, Bureau for Food Security, U.S. Agency for
International Development; Ms. Lisa Bos, Senior Policy Advisor
for Health, Education, and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene,
World Vision; Henry Perry, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Associate,
Health Systems Program, Department of International Health,
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University;
Ms. Carolyn Wetzel Chen, Chief Grant Development Officer, Food
for the Hungry, Inc.; Sophia Aguirre, Ph.D., Chair, Integral
Economic Development Management Program, Catholic University of
America; and Mehret Mandefro, M.D., Adjunct Professor of Health
Policy, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George
Washington University.
April 2, 2014--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,
and Trade: The Crude Truth: Evaluating U.S. Energy Trade
Policy. The Honorable Lisa Murkowski, United States Senate; Mr.
Michael Jennings, Chief Executive Officer and President,
HollyFrontier Corporation; Mr. Erik Milito, Director, Upstream
and Industry Operations, American Petroleum Institute; Kenneth
B. Medlock III, Ph.D., Senior Director, Center for Energy
Studies, James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy; and Ms.
Deborah Gordon, Senior Associate, Energy and Climate Program,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
April 8, 2014--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,
and Trade: Is al-Qaeda Winning? Grading the Administration's
Counterterrorism Policy. The Honorable Joseph Lieberman (former
United States Senator); The Honorable Jane Harman Director,
President, and Chief Executive Officer, The Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars (former Member of Congress);
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 for Public
Policy Research; and Mr. Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow,
Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution.
April 9, 2014--Full Committee: U.S. Foreign Assistance in
FY 2015: What Are the Priorities, How Effective? The Honorable
Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
April 9, 2014--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: U.S. Policy Towards Morocco. Mr. William Roebuck,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Egypt and Maghreb
Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; and Ms. Alina Romanowski, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S. Agency for
International Development.
April 9, 2014--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
Advancing U.S. Interests in the Western Hemisphere: The FY 2015
Foreign Affairs Budget. The Honorable Roberta S. Jacobson,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Western Hemisphere Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; and Ms. Elizabeth Hogan, Acting
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the
Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development.
April 29, 2014--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Effective
Accountability: Tier Rankings in the Fight Against Human
Trafficking. The Honorable Mark Lagon, Global Politics 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; Mr. Brian
Campbell, Director of Policy and Legal Programs, International
Labor Rights Forum; Mr. Blair Burns, Vice President of Regional
Operations, Southeast Asia, International Justice Mission; Ms.
Nathalie Lummert, Director, Special Programs, Migration and
Refugee Services, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; and
Wakar Uddin, Ph.D., Director General, Arakan Rohingya Union.
April 29, 2014--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: The Administration's FY 2015 MENA Budget Request:
Priorities, Objectives and Challenges. The Honorable Anne W.
Patterson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; and Ms. Alina L. Romanowski, Deputy
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S.
Agency for International Development.
April 29, 2014--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and
the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee
on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation: Confronting
Transnational Drug Smuggling: An Assessment of Regional
Partnerships. General John F. Kelly, USMC, Commander, Southern
Command, U.S. Department of Defense; Admiral Robert J. Papp
Jr., USCG, Commandant, Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland
Security; and the Honorable Luis E. Arreaga, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
April 30, 2014--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific:
Assessing U.S. Foreign Assistance Priorities in South Asia. The
Honorable Nisha Biswal, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South
and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and Ms.
Denise Rollins, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Asia,
U.S. Agency for International Development.
May 7, 2014--Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging
Threats: Assessing the Biological Weapons Threat: Russia and
Beyond. Amy Smithson, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, James Martin Center
for Nonproliferation Studies; David R. Franz, Ph.D. (former
Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases); Christopher Davis, M.D. (former member, Defense
Intelligence Staff of the United Kingdom); and Mr. Milton
Leitenberg, Senior Research Scholar Center for International
and Security Studies at Maryland School of Public Policy,
University of Maryland.
May 8, 2014--Full Committee: Russia's Destabilization of
Ukraine. The Honorable Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; and the Honorable Daniel Glaser, Assistant Secretary,
Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department
of the Treasury.
May 8, 2014--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: The Palestinian Authority, Israel and the Peace
Process: What's Next? Jonathan Schanzer, Ph.D., Vice President
for Research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Mr. James
Prince, Co-founder and President, The Democracy Council; and
the Honorable Robert Wexler, President, S. Daniel Abraham
Center for Middle East Peace (former Member of Congress).
May 20, 2014--Full Committee: The Future of U.S.-Mexico
Relations. The Honorable Roberta S. Jacobson, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable William R. Brownfield,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and Ms.
Elizabeth Hogan, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
May 20, 2014--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific:
Resourcing the Pivot to Asia: East Asia and Pacific FY 2015
Budget Priorities. The Honorable Daniel R. Russel, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; and Ms. Denise Rollins, Acting Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
May 21, 2014--Full Committee: Boko Haram: The Growing
Threat to Schoolgirls, Nigeria, and Beyond. The Honorable Sarah
Sewall, Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and
Human Rights, U.S. Department of State; and Ms. Amanda J. Dory,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs, U.S.
Department of Defense.
May 22, 2014--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global
Human Rights, and International Organizations: Protecting
Religious Freedom: U.S. Efforts to Hold Accountable Countries
of Particular Concern. Robert P. George, Ph.D., Chairman, U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom; Mr. Kenneth E.
Bowers, Secretary, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaa'iis
of the United States; Mr. Amjad M. Khan, National Director of
Public Affairs, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA; and Pastor Bob
Fu, Founder and President, ChinaAid Association.
June 10, 2014--Full Committee: Verifying Iran's Nuclear
Compliance. The Honorable Stephen G. Rademaker, National
Security Advisor, Bipartisan Policy Center (former Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control & Bureau of International
Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State); Mr.
John A. Lauder, Senior Advisor, 20twenty Strategic Consulting,
Inc. (former Director, Nonproliferation Center, Intelligence
Community); Mr. Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University (former Deputy Director General,
International Atomic Energy Agency); and the Honorable Joseph
R. DeTrani, President, Intelligence and National Security
Alliance (former Director, National Counter Proliferation
Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence).
June 10, 2014--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: Examining U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan.
The Honorable John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for
Afghanistan Reconstruction; and Mr. Charles Michael Johnson,
Jr., Director, International Security & Counterterrorism
Issues, International Affairs & Trade Team, U.S. Government
Accountability Office.
June 10, 2014--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,
and Trade: The State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau:
Budget, Programs, and Evaluation. The Honorable Tina Kaidanow,
Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S.
Department of State.
June 18, 2014--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Human
Rights Abuses and Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea. The
Honorable Andrew Natsios, Co-Chair, The Committee for Human
Rights in North Korea; Shin Chang-hoon, Ph.D, Director, Center
for Global Governance, Asan Institute for Policy Studies; Mr.
Shin Dong-hyuk, Survivor of North Korean prison camp; and the
Honorable Lee Jong Hoon, Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights,
Republic of Korea.
June 18, 2014-- Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation, and Trade and Subcommittee on the Middle East
and North Africa: The Bergdahl Exchange: Implications for U.S.
National Security and the Fight Against Terrorism. Mr. Mike
Waltz, Senior National Security Fellow, New America Foundation
(commanded a Special Forces' Company in Eastern Afghanistan in
2009); Spc. Cody Full, USA, Retired (served with Sgt. Bergdahl
in Blackfoot Company, Second Platoon); Mr. Andy Andrews, father
of deceased Second Lieutenant, USA, Darryn Andrews; and Mark
Jacobson, Ph.D., Senior Advisor, Truman National Security
Project.
June 19, 2014-- Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa and Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human
Rights, and International Organizations: One Year Under
Rouhani: Iran's Abysmal Human Rights Record. Robert P. George,
Ph.D., Chairman, U.S. Commission on International Religious
Freedom; Ms. Cler Baheri, member of the Baha'i Community; Mr.
Hossein Alizadeh, Regional Program Coordinator for the Middle
East and North Africa, International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights
Commission; and Mr. Amir Hossein Etemadi, former Iranian
political prisoner.
June 25, 2014--Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and
Emerging Threats: Reviewing the Administration's FY 2015 Budget
Request for Europe and Eurasia. Mr. Dan Rosenblum, Coordinator
of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Bureau of European
and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Jonathan
Katz, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe and
Eurasia, U.S. Agency for International Development; and Ms.
Denise Rollins, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau for Asia,
U.S. Agency for International Development.
July 10, 2014--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Human
Rights Vetting: Nigeria and Beyond. Colonel Peter Aubrey, USA,
Retired, President, Strategic Opportunities International; Ms.
Lauren Ploch Blanchard, Specialist in African Affairs,
Congressional Research Service; Ms. Elisa Massimino, President
and Chief Executive Officer, Human Rights First; Mr. Stephen
Rickard, Director, Washington Office, Open Society Foundations;
and Ms. Sarah Margon, Washington Director, Human Rights Watch.
July 23, 2014--Full Committee: Terrorist March in Iraq: The
U.S. Response. Mr. Brett McGurk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Iraq and Iran, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department
of State; and Ms. Elissa Slotkin, Performing the Duties of the
Principle Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S.
Department of Defense.
July 23, 2014--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: The
Troubling Case of Meriam Ibrahim. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D.,
Commissioner, United States Commission on International
Religious Freedom; The Honorable Tony Perkins, President,
Family Research Council; The Honorable Grover Joseph Rees,
former General Counsel, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service; and Mr. Omer Ismail, Senior Policy Advisor, Enough
Project.
July 24, 2014--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: U.S.-
India Relations Under the Modi Government. The Honorable Nisha
Biswal, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and the Honorable Arun
Kumar, Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial
Service and Assistant Secretary for Global Markets,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
July 29, 2014--Full Committee: Iran Nuclear Negotiations:
From Extension to Final Agreement? The Honorable Wendy R.
Sherman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, U.S. Department
of State; and the Honorable David S. Cohen, Under Secretary for
Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the
Treasury.
July 30, 2014--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific:
Twenty-Years of U.S. Policy on North Korea: From Agreed
Framework to Strategic Patience. The Honorable Glyn Davies,
Special Representative, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and the Honorable Robert
King, Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights, Office of
the Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea, U.S.
Department of State.
September 10, 2014--Full Committee: Libya's Descent. The
Honorable Gerald Feierstein, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of
State.
September 18, 2014--Full Committee: The ISIS Threat:
Weighing the Obama Administration's Response. The Honorable
John F. Kerry, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State.
September 18, 2014--Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa and Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging
Threats: The Struggles of Recovering Assets for Holocaust
Survivors. Mr. Jack Rubin, Holocaust survivor; Ms. Klara
Firestone, daughter of Holocaust survivors; Barbara Paris,
M.D., physician who focuses on the care of Holocaust survivors;
and Ms. Eugenie Lieberman, daughter of Holocaust survivor.
November 13, 2014--Full Committee: Combating Ebola in West
Africa: The International Response. The Honorable Rajiv Shah,
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; The
Honorable Bisa Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable
Michael D. Lumpkin, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special
Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, U.S. Department of
Defense; Major General James Lariviere, USMC, Deputy Director
for Politico-Military Affairs (Africa), Joint Chiefs of Staff,
U.S. Department of Defense; and Major General Nadja Y. West,
USA, Joint Staff Surgeon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S.
Department of Defense.
November 18, 2014--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
Unaccompanied Alien Children: Pressing the Administration for a
Strategy. The Honorable Roberta S. Jacobson, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Ms. Elizabeth Hogan, Acting Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S.
Agency for International Development; Mr. Robert N. Kaplan,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Inter-American
Foundation; and Ms. Catherine Wiesner, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S.
Department of State.
November 19, 2014--Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa: Next Steps for U.S. Foreign Policy on Syria and
Iraq. The Honorable Robert Stephen Ford, Senior Fellow, Middle
East Institute (former U.S. Ambassador to Syria); The Honorable
Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies,
Council on Foreign Relations, Kimberly Kagan, Ph.D., Founder
and President, Institute for the Study of War; and Steven
Heydemann, Ph.D., Vice President of Applied Research on
Conflict, United States Institute of Peace.
November 20, 2014--Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa: Examining What a Nuclear Iran Deal Means for
Global Security. General Michael Hayden, USAF, Retired,
Principal, The Chertoff Group (former Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency); Mr. Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director,
Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Mr. Karim
Sadjadpour, Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace.
December 4, 2014--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Is
Academic Freedom Threatened by China's Influence on U.S.
Universities? Perry Link, Ph.D., Chancellorial Chair for
Innovative Teaching, University of California, Riverside;
Thomas Cushman, Ph.D., Deffenbaugh de Hoyos Carlson Chair in
the Social Sciences, Wellesley College; Xia Yeliang, Ph.D.,
Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato
Institute; and Sophie Richardson, Ph.D., China Director, Human
Rights Watch.
December 10, 2014--Full Committee: Countering ISIS: Are We
Making Progress? The Honorable Brett McGurk, Deputy Special
Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL,
U.S. Department of State.
December 10, 2014--Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa and Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: After
the Withdrawal: The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
(Part III). The Honorable Jarret Blanc, Deputy Special
Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Department of
State; The Honorable Donald L. Sampler, Assistant to the
Administrator, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, U.S.
Agency for International Development; and Mr. James Soiles,
Deputy Chief of Operations, Office of Global Enforcement, Drug
Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice.
I. Committee-Hosted Dignitary Meetings
Members Meeting with the President of the Republic of
Haiti, His Excellency Michael Martelly (February 5, 2014)
Members Meeting with the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan, His Majesty Abdullah II (February 11, 2014)
Members Meeting with the Minister of Strategic Affairs and
Intelligence Affairs of the State of Israel, His Excellency Dr.
Yuval Steinitz (March 5, 2014)
Members Meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
State of Israel, His Excellency Avigdor Lieberman (April 8,
2014)
Members Meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs for
the Arab Republic of Egypt, His Excellency Nabil Fahmy (April
28, 2014)
Members Meeting with the Prime Minister of the Republic of
Latvia, Her Excellency Laimdota Straujuma (April 29, 2014)
Members Meeting with a Child Survivor of Boko Haram Attack
(May 21, 2014)
Members Meeting with Ambassador Adel A. Al-Jubeir of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba of the
United Arab Emirates (June 23, 2014)
Members Meeting with Ambassador Ron Dermer of the State of
Israel and Israel Defense and Armed Forces Attachee Major
General Yaacob Ayish (July 11, 2014)
Members Meeting with the State Department's Special Envoy
and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, Honorable
Carlos Pascual (July 17, 2014)
Members Meeting with Ambassador Francisco Altschul of the
Republic of El Salvador, Ambassador Julio Ligorriia of the
Republic of Guatemala, and Ambassador Jorge Milla Reyes of the
Republic of Honduras (July 22, 2014)
Members Meeting with the senior staff of the White House
National Security Council (July 23, 2014)
Members Meeting with the U.S. Ambassador to Japan,
Honorable Caroline Kennedy (July 23, 2014)
Members Meeting with Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir of the
Foreign Relations Department of the Kurdistan Regional
Government and Fuad Hussein, Chief of Staff to President Masoud
Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government (September 17,
2014)
Member Meeting with the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine,
Honorable Geoffrey Pyatt (December 9, 2014)
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
Curt Clawson, FL
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
Sean Duffy, WI
Curt Clawson, FL
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
Sean Duffy, WI