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The committee also oversees the U.S. Department of State, American embassies and diplomats, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. During two separate periods, 1975 to 1978 and 1995 to 2007, the Foreign Affairs Committee was renamed the Committee on International Relations ; [ 2 ] its duties and jurisdiction remained unchanged.
Most committees are additionally subdivided into subcommittees, each with its own leadership selected according to the full committee's rules. [3] [4] The only standing committee with no subcommittees is the Budget Committee. The modern House committees were brought into existence through the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. This bill ...
Gregory Weldon Meeks (born September 25, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who has been a U.S. representative from New York since 1998. He is a member of the Democratic Party and chaired the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2023.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is holding a hearing Thursday morning looking into what GOP leadership has called the “betrayal” of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is planning to move legislation this week to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it issued an ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to advance a bill that would make it easier for the Biden administration to restrict the export of ...
Eliot Lance Engel (/ ˈ ɛ ŋ ɡ əl /; born February 18, 1947) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from New York from 1989 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented a district covering portions of the north Bronx and southern Westchester County.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), now the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Jewish Insider on Tuesday that Democrats are “looking at whether there’s an opportunity to ...