On Wednesday, May 16th at 2:00 PM, the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia will hold a hearing entitled, "Assessing U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities and Needs Amidst Economic Challenges in South Asia." The purpose of this hearing is to follow up on the recent Full Committee hearing with the Secretary of State and the USAID Administrator.
MoreThe House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia holds a hearing entitled, "Status of the Processing of the Camp Ashraf Residents." The purpose of this hearing is to review progress in relocating the residents of Camp Ashraf.
MoreChairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following remarks on March 20, 2012 on the latest series of crackdowns perpetrated by the Cuban regime against Cuban dissidents in Havana just days ahead of Pope Benedict XVI’s March 26-28 visit to the island.
MoreU.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following remarks on March 21, 2012 on the decades-long series of atrocities committed by Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Ros-Lehtinen expressed her support for current legislation before the U.S. House of Representatives designed to assist in bringing Kony and the top leaders of the LRA to justice.
MoreChairman Ros-Lehtinen convened a Committee hearing on Iranian activity in the Western Hemisphere by warning of the potential for the Iranian regime to use its increased regional ties, including ties to extremist groups operating in the region, as a platform from which to attack the United States. The hearing comes days after Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified to Congress that Iranian officials are “now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States."
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