House Foreign Affairs Committee

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko said on Thursday his agency has uncovered “some really horrific information about the problems with the U.N. operations in Afghanistan.”

House Foreign Affairs Republicans sent a letter on Tuesday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding more information about the department’s funding of groups that censor conservatives and free speech.

Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX) unveiled a bill last week that would give Americans the right to sue the Chinese Communist Party for damages after it allowed the coronavirus to spread around the world.

House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) led several Republican lawmakers Tuesday on a trip to Ukraine where they expressed their support to President Volodymyr Zelensky and conducted oversight of military equipment.

The House voted Thursday along party lines to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee through a resolution that cites her past derogatory remarks about Jewish people and anti-Israel posture.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on Tuesday that he has enough Republican votes to keep Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Following Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) outrageous claim she was unaware of antisemitic tropes associating Jewish people with money, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein blasted the Somalia-born Democrat, accusing her of hating America “as much as Israel,” while commending House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for vowing to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) falsely claimed that Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) removed them from certain committee assignments as a result of a deal with fellow Republicans during the speakership race.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) said on Sunday that skeptics of aid to Ukraine do not understand “what’s at stake.”

Rep. Claudia Tenney called on Congress to stand with the “brave” Iranian people following the passage of a resolution commending Iranian protestors.

Somalia-born Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN), notorious for her antisemitic sentiments, responded to the “threat” from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) vowing to kick her off of her committees when he becomes speaker of the House.

Republicans released a report detailing their investigation of the Biden administration’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Barr’s bill requires the State Department to submit regular reports to Congress on China’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The sale of the UK’s largest semiconductor factory to a firm controlled by the Communist China has not properly been investigated, claim MPs.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) responded to House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s threat to remove him from his position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) if McCarthy becomes Speaker of the House.

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News that as speaker of the House he would strip Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) of their assignments on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of her committee assignment on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

House Democrats joined Republicans to introduce a bill to monitor and protect U.S. from communist China’s malign activitities.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) on Saturday announced that he has achieved “complete remission” in his battle against early stage chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), with which he was diagnosed with last year.

Three Republican congressmen told Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday he should resign over the Biden administration’s deadly U.S. withdrawal that plunged Afghanistan into chaos.

Rep Brian Mast excoriated Blinken, telling him that families of the killed 13 service members deserve real answers over what happened.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken refused to deny Monday that U.S. President Joe Biden pressured his then-Afghan counterpart, Ashraf Ghani, during a phone call in July to mislead the public and say Kabul was winning its war against the Taliban.

Anthony Blinken’s testimony will be the first opportunity for elected representatives to hold the Biden administration accountable for the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.

Republicans are planning to capitalize on their first shot to grill Secretary of State Antony Blinken over President Joe Biden’s botched U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan when he testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Monday afternoon and the panel’s Senate counterpart Tuesday.

Brooks said he believes the coronavirus was manmade and that the Chinese Communist Party-run government should be held liable.

The preponderance of evidence shows the coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, said a Republican congressional report.

Cuban dissident leader and human rights activist Rosa Maria Paya Acevedo told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on Tuesday that the free world should treat Cuban Communism as an unacceptable moral horror, the same way South African apartheid was defeated with intense international pressure in the 1980s.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is calling for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to be removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee after Omar on Monday compared the U.S. and Israel to the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group.

A representative from Nike declined an invitation to testify Thursday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that discussed China’s human rights abuses of its minority Muslim Uyghur population and American corporations that could be manufacturing products made with Uyghur slave labor in Xinjiang Province, according to committee members.

Three Republican members lawmakers demanded Wednesday that the U.S. Department of State’s inspector general investigate John Kerry.

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton Klein blasted the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFA) as well as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Friday, after tweeting out messages on Holocaust Remembrance Day viewed as “reprehensible,” “hateful” and “antisemitic.”

Speaking at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken described Taiwan as a “country that can contribute to the world, not just its own people.”

The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America, declared Monday that the promotion of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to a senior committee position shows that Congress accepts antisemitism.

Ilhan Omar was promoted within the committee despite a history of antisemitic rhetoric that resulted in a House resolution in 2019 condemning antisemitism.

Meeks is planning to slash the Western Hemisphere subcommittee nearly in half, according to a group of freshmen Republican committee members.

Seven GOP members of the House joined Democrats in passing legislation that opens a pipeline for Hong Kong citizens to relocate to the U.S.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans on Monday morning released its final report on the Chinese Communist Party’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, which provided damning details of how Beijing tried to hide the outbreak of the virus, allowing for its spread to the rest of the world.