[House Report 114-898]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
Union Calendar No. 709
114th Congress } { Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2nd Session } { 114-898
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LEGISLATIVE REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES
of the
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
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ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH 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
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December 30, 2016.--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
114th Congress
EDWARD R. ROYCE, California, Chairman
(25-19)
CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York
ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida BRAD SHERMAN, California
DANA ROHRABACHER, California GREGORY W. MEEKS, New York
STEVE CHABOT, Ohio ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey
JOE WILSON, South Carolina GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia
MICHAEL T. McCAUL, Texas THEODORE E. DEUTCH, Florida
TED POE, Texas BRIAN HIGGINS, New York
MATT SALMON, Arizona KAREN BASS, California
DARRELL E. ISSA, California WILLIAM KEATING, Massachusetts
TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island
JEFF DUNCAN, South Carolina ALAN GRAYSON, Florida
MO BROOKS, Alabama AMI BERA, California
PAUL COOK, California ALAN S. LOWENTHAL, California
RANDY K. WEBER SR., Texas GRACE MENG, New York
SCOTT PERRY, Pennsylvania LOIS FRANKEL, Florida
RON DeSANTIS, Florida TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii
MARK MEADOWS, North Carolina JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas
TED S. YOHO, Florida ROBIN L. KELLY, Illinois
CURT CLAWSON, Florida BRENDAN F. BOYLE, Pennsylvania
SCOTT DesJARLAIS, Tennessee
REID J. RIBBLE, Wisconsin
DAVID A. TROTT, Michigan
LEE M. ZELDIN, New York
TOM EMMER, Minnesota*
DANIEL DONOVAN, New York**
Amy Porter, Chief of Staff Thomas Sheehy, Staff Director
Jason Steinbaum, Democratic Staff Director
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*Rep. Emmer resigned May 18, 2015.
**Rep. Donovan appointed May 19, 2015.
C O N T E N T S
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Page
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............................. 12
C. Foreign Affairs Legislation Considered by the House. 12
III.Meetings of the Full Committee and Subcommittees.................17
A. Full Committee...................................... 17
B. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human
Rights, and International Organizations............ 23
C. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific................ 30
D. Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging
Threats............................................ 36
E. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.... 38
F. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and
Trade.............................................. 42
G. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.............. 46
H. Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Mismanagement, and Oversight
Hearings........................................... 50
I. Committee-Hosted Dignitary Meetings................. 60
Appendix:
Membership of the Subcommittees of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs...................................................... 63
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
House of Representatives,
Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Washington, DC, December 30, 2016.
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 114th 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 during the 114th Congress.
Sincerely,
Edward R. Royce,
Chairman.
FOREWORD
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House of Representatives,
Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Washington, DC, December 30, 2016.
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
than January 2 of each odd-numbered year. This report, which
covers committee activities of the 114th Congress, has been
prepared and submitted in fulfillment of that obligation.
Union Calendar No. 709
114th Congress } { Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2nd Session } { 114-898
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LEGISLATIVE REVIEW AND OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES
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December 30, 2016--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 conducts 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. From the
start of this Congress through December 15, 2016, the committee
has received 1963 notifications and reports from the Department
of State, 550 from the United States Agency for International
Development, 347 from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency,
81 from the Securities and Exchange Commission, 112 from the
Department of Defense, 31 from the Millennium Challenge
Corporation, 22 from the United States Trade and Development
Agency, and 3 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 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, Defense, and Trade 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)
2/27/15 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair obtained unanimous consent to consider two
measures and one amendment (previously provided to members of
the committee) en bloc:
1) H.R. 400 (Royce), Trafficking Prevention in Foreign
Affairs Contracting Act.
2) H. Res. 53 (Kelly), Condemning the cowardly attack on
innocent men, women, and children in the northeastern Nigerian
town of Baga;
a. Kelly 14, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
The items considered en bloc were agreed to by voice vote.
The chair then called up the bill:
3) H.R. 757 (Royce), A North Korea Sanctions Enforcement
Act of 2015.
By unanimous consent, the following amendments to H.R. 757
(previously provided to members of the committee) were
considered en bloc, and agreed to by voice vote:
a. Castro 22;
b. Connolly 23; and
c. Poe 83.
H.R. 757, as amended, was agreed to by voice vote, and was
ordered favorably reported to the House as a single amendment
in the nature of a substitute by unanimous consent.
By unanimous consent the chair was authorized to seek House
consideration of any of the measures agreed to today under
suspension of the rules.
The committee adjourned.
4/23/15 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair obtained unanimous consent to consider several
measures and amendments (previously provided to members of the
committee) en bloc:
1) H.R. 237 (Poe), FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015;
a. Poe 33, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
2) H.R. 500 (Honda), Survivors of Human Trafficking
Empowerment Act;
a. Royce 34, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
3) H.R. 907 (Ros-Lehtinen), United States-Jordan Defense
Cooperation Act of 2015;
a. Ros-Lehtinen 86, an amendment in the nature
of a substitute.
4) H.R. 1493 (Engel), Protect and Preserve International
Cultural Property Act.
5) H.R. 1567 (Smith), Global Food Security Act of 2015;
a. Smith 91, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
i. Poe 122, an amendment to Smith 91.
6) H. Res. 50 (Levin), Calling for the release of
Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who was captured by
Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine and has been held illegally
in a Russian prison since July 2014; and
a. Smith 31;
b. Connolly 36;
c. Keating 15.
7) H. Con. Res. 40, Encouraging reunions of divided Korean
American families.
The items considered en bloc were agreed to by voice vote,
and were ordered favorably reported by unanimous consent.
By unanimous consent, the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of any of the measures agreed to under
suspension of the rules.
The committee adjourned.
5/21/15 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair obtained unanimous consent to consider several
measures and amendments (previously provided to members of the
committee) en bloc:
1) H.R. 1853 (Salmon), To direct the President to develop
a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the
International Criminal Police Organization, and for other
purposes.
2) H.R. 2100 (Chabot), Girls Count Act of 2015.
3) H.R. 2323 (Royce), United States International
Communications Reform Act of 2015;
a. Castro 51;
b. McCaul 33;
c. Royce 41;
d. Royce 901.
4) H. Res. 213 (Bass), Condemning the April 2015 terrorist
attack at the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, and
reaffirming the United States support for the people and
Government of Kenya, and for other purposes.
5) H. Res. 235 (Salmon), Expressing deepest condolences to
and solidarity with the people of Nepal following the
devastating earthquake on April 25, 2015;
a. Salmon 70, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
i. Connolly/Bass/Sherman/Lowenthal 54,
an amendment to Salmon 70;
ii. Sherman 10, an amendment to Salmon
70.
The items considered en bloc were agreed to by voice vote,
and ordered favorably reported by unanimous consent.
By unanimous consent, the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of any of the measures agreed to under
suspension of the rules.
The committee adjourned.
6/25/15 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up H.R. 2494 (Royce), Global Anti-Poaching
Act, and obtained unanimous consent to consider Royce 52, an
amendment in the nature of a substitute (previously provided to
members of the committee) as base text.
The following amendments to Royce 52 were offered:
1) Royce 55, agreed to by voice vote;
2) Grayson 62, withdrawn;
3) Poe 62, agreed to by voice vote.
H.R. 2494, as amended by Royce 52, Royce 55, and Poe 62,
was agreed to by voice vote, and ordered favorably reported by
unanimous consent.
By unanimous consent, the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of H.R. 2494, as amended, under suspension
of the rules.
The committee adjourned.
10/9/15 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair obtained unanimous consent to consider the
following measures and amendments (previously provided to
members of the committee) en bloc:
1) H. Res. 348 (Cicilline), Supporting the right of the
people of Ukraine to freely elect their government and
determine their future;
a. Cicilline 200, an amendment in the nature
of a substitute;
i. Cicilline 58, an amendment to
Cicilline 200.
2) H. Res. 354 (Smith), Expressing the sense of the House
regarding the safety and security of Jewish communities in
Europe;
a. Smith 201, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
The items considered en bloc were agreed to by voice vote,
and were ordered favorably reported by unanimous consent.
By unanimous consent, the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of either of the measures agreed to under
suspension of the rules.
The committee adjourned.
10/22/15 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up the following measure:
1) H. Res. 293 (Ros-Lehtinen), Expressing concern over
anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement within the Palestinian
Authority.
a. By unanimous consent, Royce 204, an
amendment in the nature of a substitute, was
called up and made base text for the purposes
of amendment;
i. Mr. Salmon offered an amendment to
Royce 204, Salmon 91, agreed to by
voice vote.
H. Res. 293, as amended, was agreed to by voice vote, and
ordered favorably reported by unanimous consent.
By unanimous consent, the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of H. Res. 293 under suspension of the
rules.
The committee adjourned.
11/5/15 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair obtained unanimous consent to consider the
following measures and amendments (previously provided to
members of the committee) en bloc:
1) H.R. 2241 (Sires), Global Health Innovation Act of
2015;
a. Sires 210.
2) H.R. 2845 (Royce), African Growth and Opportunity Act
Enhancement Act of 2015.
3) H.R. 3750 (Issa), First Responders Passport Act of
2015;
a. Issa 50, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
4) H.R. 3766 (Poe), Foreign Aid Transparency and
Accountability Act of 2015.
The items considered en bloc were agreed to by voice vote,
and were ordered favorably reported, as amended, by unanimous
consent.
By unanimous consent, the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of these measures under suspension of the
rules.
The committee adjourned.
12/9/15 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair obtained unanimous consent to consider the
following measures and amendments (previously provided to
members of the committee) en bloc:
1) H.R. 1654 (Royce), To authorize the direct provision of
defense articles, defense services, and related training to the
Kurdistan Regional Government, and for other purposes;
a. Royce 87, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
2) H.R. 3654 (Poe), Combat Terrorist Use of Social Media
Act of 2015;
a. Poe 81, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
i. Issa 56, an amendment to Poe 81.
3) H.R. 4154 (Sherman), Taiwan Naval Support Act.
4) H. Res. 346 (Yoho), Condemning the use of toxic
chemicals as weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic;
a. Yoho 72, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
5) H. Res. 536 (Sires), Supporting freedom of the press in
Latin America and the Caribbean and condemning violations of
press freedom and violence against journalists, bloggers, and
individuals exercising their right to freedom of speech;
a. Sires 13, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
The items considered en bloc were agreed to by voice vote,
and were ordered favorably reported, as amended, by unanimous
consent.
By unanimous consent, the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of the measures under suspension of the
rules.
The committee adjourned.
1/7/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called the markup to order.
1) H.R. 4314 (Zeldin), Counterterrorism Screening and
Assistance Act of 2015;
a. Royce 92, a manager's amendment.
By unanimous consent, H.R. 4314 and Royce 92 were
considered en bloc and agreed to by voice vote.
By unanimous consent, H.R. 4314, as amended, was ordered
favorably reported to the House, and the chair was authorized
to seek consideration of the measure under suspension of the
rules.
2) H.R. 3662 (Russell), Iran Terror Finance Transparency
Act was ordered favorably reported to the House by voice vote,
a reporting quorum being present.
3) H.R. 1797 (Smith), End Neglected Tropical Diseases Act;
a. Smith 73, an amendment to Title I of H.R.
1797.
By unanimous consent, H.R. 1797 and Smith 73 were
considered en bloc and agreed to by voice vote.
By unanimous consent, H.R. 1797, as amended, was ordered
favorably reported.
The committee adjourned.
2/24/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
By unanimous consent, the chair called up the following
measures and amendments, to be considered en bloc:
1) H. Res. 148 (Deutch), Calling on the government of Iran
to fulfill their promises of assistance in the case of Robert
Levinson, the longest held United States hostage in our
Nation's history;
a. Ros-Lehtinen/Deutch 31, an amendment in the
nature of a substitute.
2) H. Res. 551 (Lieu), Recognizing the importance of the
United States-Israel economic relationship and encouraging new
areas of cooperation.
3) H.R. 3924 (Castro), Global Development Lab of 2015;
a. Castro 218, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
4) H.R. 4403 (Hurd), Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting
Act.
By unanimous consent, the measures considered en bloc were
ordered favorably reported, as amended, and the chair was
authorized to seek House consideration of the measures under
suspension of the rules.
The committee adjourned.
3/2/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
By unanimous consent, the chair called up the following
measures and amendment, to be considered en bloc:
1) H. Con. Res. 75 (Fortenberry), A resolution expressing
the sense of Congress that the atrocities perpetrated by ISIL
against religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria
include war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide;
a. Royce 97, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
2) H. Con. Res. 121 (Smith), Expressing the sense of the
Congress condemning the gross violations of international law
amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity by the
Government of Syria, its allies, and other parties to the
conflict in Syria, and asking the President to direct his
Ambassador at the United Nations to promote the establishment
of a war crimes tribunal where these crimes could be addressed.
The measures considered en bloc were agreed to by voice
vote.
By unanimous consent, the measures were ordered favorably
reported, as amended, and the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of the measures under suspension of the
rules.
The committee adjourned.
3/16/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called the markup to order.
1) H.R. 4678 (Royce), To prohibit modification,
abrogation, abandonment, or other related actions with respect
to United States jurisdiction and control over United States
Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without congressional
action.
H.R. 4678 was agreed to by voice vote, and by unanimous
consent was ordered favorably reported, and the chair was
authorized to seek House Consideration of the measure under
suspension of the rules.
2) H. Res. 343 (Ros-Lehtinen), Expressing concern
regarding 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 and members of other
religious and ethnic minority groups;
a. Ros-Lehtinen 34, an amendment in the nature
of a substitute, was considered base text by
unanimous consent.
H. Res. 343 was agreed to, as amended, by voice vote. By
unanimous consent, the measure, as amended, was ordered
favorably reported and the chair was authorized to seek House
consideration of the measure under suspension of the rules.
The committee adjourned.
4/20/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
By unanimous consent, the chair called up the following
measures and amendments, to be considered en bloc:
1) H.R. 1150 (Smith), the Frank R. Wolf International
Religious Freedom Act of 2015;
a. Smith 76, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
2) H.R. 3694 (Trott), the Strategy to Oppose Predatory
Organ Trafficking Act;
a. Trott 8, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
i. Keating 63, an amendment to Trott
8.
3) H.R. 4939 (Engel), the U.S.-Caribbean Strategic
Engagement Act of 2016.
4) H. Con. Res. 88 (Chabot), Reaffirming the Taiwan
Relations Act and the Six Assurances as the cornerstone of
U.S.-Taiwan relations;
a. Chabot 36, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
i. Connolly 72, an amendment to Chabot
36.
5) S. 2143 (Cornyn), A bill to provide for the authority
for the successors and assigns of the Starr-Camargo Bridge
Company to maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Rio
Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas, and for other purposes.
The measures considered en bloc were agreed to by voice
vote. By unanimous consent, the measures were ordered favorably
reported, as amended, and the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of the measures under suspension of the
rules.
The committee adjourned.
5/18/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up the following measures and amendments,
to be considered en bloc, by unanimous consent:
1) H. Res. 374 (Heck), Recognizing the 50th anniversary of
Singaporean independence and reaffirming Singapore's close
partnership with the United States;
a. Engel 78, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
2) H. Res. 650 (Poe), Providing for the safety and
security of the Iranian dissidents living in Camp Liberty/
Hurriya in Iraq and awaiting resettlement by the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees, and permitting use of their own
assets to assist in their resettlement;
a. Engel 80.
3) H. Con. Res. 129 (Ros-Lehtinen), Expressing support for
the goal of ensuring that all Holocaust victims live with
dignity, comfort, and security in their remaining years, and
urging the Federal Republic of Germany to reaffirm its
commitment to this goal through a financial commitment to
comprehensively address the unique health and welfare needs of
vulnerable Holocaust victims, including home care and other
medically prescribed needs;
a. Ros-Lehtinen 45.
4) S. 1252 (Casey), Global Food Security Act of 2016.
The measures and amendments considered en bloc were agreed
to by voice vote. By unanimous consent, the measures were
ordered favorably reported, as amended, and the chair was
authorized to seek House consideration of the measures under
suspension of the rules.
The chair then called up S. 284 (Cardin), Global Magnitsky
Human Rights Accountability Act.
By unanimous consent, S. 284, as modified by Royce 102, a
Manager's amendment to S. 284, was considered base text for
purposes of amendment.
Rohrabacher 49, an amendment to S. 284, was not agreed to
by voice vote.
S. 284, as amended by Royce 102, was agreed to by voice
vote. By unanimous consent, the measure, as amended, was
ordered favorably reported as a single amendment in the nature
of a substitute, and the chair was authorized to seek House
consideration under suspension of the rules.
The committee adjourned.
5/26/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called up the following measure and amendment in
the nature of a substitute, previously provided to members of
the committee:
1) S. 1635 (Corker), Department of State Operations
Authorization and Embassy Security Act, Fiscal Year 2016;
a. Royce 109, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
Royce 109, was considered as base text by unanimous
consent.
The chair called up several amendments, previously provided
to members, to be considered en bloc:
i.
Brooks 46;
ii.
Chabot 40;
iii.
Connolly 77;
iv.
DesJarlais 10;
v.
Duncan 64;
vi.
Duncan 65;
vii.
Engel 95;
viii.
Keating 14;
ix.
Kelly 42;
x.
Lowenthal 75;
xi.
Meng 83;
xii.
Poe 105;
xiii.
Poe 106;
xiv.
Poe 107;
xv.
Ros-Lehtinen 46;
xvi.
Ros-Lehtinen 47;
xvii.
Royce 120;
xviii.
Sherman 37;
xix.
Sherman 38;
xx.
Smith 94;
xxi.
Smith 96;
xxii.
Smith 98;
xxiii.
Yoho 97.
The amendments considered en bloc were agreed to by voice
vote.
S. 1635, as amended by Royce 109 and the en bloc
amendments, was agreed to by voice vote.
By unanimous consent, S. 1635 was ordered favorably
reported as a single amendment in the nature of a substitute.
The chair was authorized to seek House consideration under
suspension of the rules.
The committee adjourned.
6/16/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
By unanimous consent, the chair called up the following
measures and amendments, to be considered en bloc:
1) H.R. 5484 (Yoho), the State Sponsors of Terrorism
Review Enhancement Act.
2) H.R. 5208 (Poe), the North Korea State Sponsor of
Terrorism Designation Act of 2016;
a. Poe 279, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
3) H.R. 5332 (Noem), the Women, Peace, and Security Act of
2016;
a. Royce 123, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
i. Keating 72, an amendment in the
second degree to Royce 123.
The measures considered en bloc were agreed to by voice
vote. By unanimous consent, the measures were ordered favorably
reported, as amended, and the chair was authorized to seek
House consideration of the measures under suspension of the
rules.
The committee adjourned.
7/14/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
By unanimous consent, the chair called up the following
measures and amendments, previously provided to members, to be
considered en bloc:
1) H. Res. 634 (Salmon), Recognizing the importance of
the United States-Republic of Korea-Japan trilateral
relationship to counter North Korean threats and nuclear
proliferation, and to ensure regional security and human
rights;
a. Salmon 146, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
2) H. Res. 660 (Poe), Expressing the sense of the House
of Representatives to support the territorial integrity of
Georgia.
3) H. Res. 728 (Lowenthal), Supporting human rights,
democracy, and the rule of law in Cambodia;
a. Lowenthal 78, an amendment in the nature of
a substitute.
4) H. Res. 729 (Ros-Lehtinen), Expressing support for the
expeditious consideration and finalization of a new, robust,
and long-term Memorandum of Understanding on military
assistance to Israel between the United States Government and
the Government of Israel.
5) H. Res. 750 (Deutch), Urging the European Union to
designate Hizballah in its entirety as a terrorist organization
and increase pressure on it and its members.
6) H. Res. 780 (Smith), Urging respect for the
constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the
democratic transition of power in 2016;
a. Royce 131;
b. Smith amendment.
7) H. Res. 808 (Royce), Calling on the Government of the
Islamic Republic of Iran to release Iranian-Americans Siamak
Namazi and his father, Baquer Namazi.
8) H. Res. 810 (Israel), Expressing the sense of the
House of Representatives regarding the life and work of Elie
Wiesel in promoting human rights, peace, and Holocaust
remembrance;
a. Royce 139.
9) H. Res. 821 (Smith), Urging the Government of Gabon to
respect democratic principles during the August 2016
presidential elections;
a. Meeks 821.
10) H.R. 4481 (Lowey), Education for All Act of 2016;
a. Royce 130, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
11) H.R. 5537 (Royce), Digital Global Access Policy Act of
2016;
a. Royce amendment.
12) H.R. 5732 (Engel), the Caesar Syrian Civilian
Protection Act of 2016;
a. Meadows 286;
b. Ros-Lehtinen 53;
c. Ros-Lehtinen 54;
d. Yoho 104.
The measures considered en bloc were agreed to by voice
vote.
The chair called up H.R. 5094 and by unanimous consent,
Engel 284, an amendment in the nature of a substitute
previously provided to members, was considered base text.
13) H.R. 5094 (Engel), Stability and Democracy for Ukraine
Act;
a. Engel 284, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
Rep. Connolly offered an amendment to
Engel 284, which was agreed to by voice
vote.
H.R. 5094, as amended by Engel 284 (amended by Connolly
84), was agreed to by voice vote.
The committee adjourned
9/14/16 Foreign Affairs Committee Markup Summary
The chair called the markup to order.
1) H.R. 5931 (Royce), Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments
to Iran Act;
a. Engel 291, an amendment in the nature of a
substitute, was not agreed to by a roll call
vote: 16 ayes; 21 noes;
b. Zeldin 46, was agreed to by voice vote.
H.R. 5931, as amended, was agreed to by a roll call vote:
21 ayes; 16 noes.
By voice vote, H.R. 5931, as amended, was ordered favorably
reported to the House.
The committee adjourned.
B. Committee Reports Filed
House Report 114-392: North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act
of 2015, H.R. 757.
House Report 114-393: Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act,
H.R. 3662.
House Report 114-482: Global Food Security Act of 2015,
H.R. 1567.
House Report 114-496: United States Naval Station
Guantanamo Bay Preservation Act, H.R. 4678.
House Report 114-767: Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to
Iran Act, H.R. 5931.
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. 515 (Smith)--International Megan's Law to Prevent
Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced
Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders. [Public Law 114-119.]
H.R. 757 (Royce)--North Korea Sanctions and Policy
Enhancement Act of 2016. [Public Law 114-122.]
H.R. 907 (Ros-Lehtinen)--United States-Jordan Defense
Cooperation Act of 2015. [Public Law 114-123.]
H.R. 1150 (Smith)--Frank R. Wolf International Religious
Freedom Act. [Public Law 114-281.]
H.R. 1191 (Barletta)--Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of
2015. [Public Law 114-17.]
H.R. 1493 (Engel)--Protect and Preserve International
Cultural Property Act. [Public Law 114-151.]
H.R. 2297 (Royce)--Hizballah International Financing
Prevention Act of 2015. [Public Law 114-102.]
H.R. 2429 (Royce)--Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt
Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016. [Public Law 114-231.]
H.R. 3766 (Poe)--Foreign Aid Transparency and
Accountability Act of 2016. [Public Law 114-191.]
H.R. 4939 (Engel)--United States-Caribbean Strategic
Engagement Act of 2016. [Public Law 114-291.]
H.R. 5937 (Miller)--To amend title 36, United States Code,
to authorize the American Battle Monuments Commission to
acquire, operate, and maintain the Lafayette Escadrille
Memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, France, and for other purposes.
[Public Law 114-227.]
H.R. 6297 (Royce)--Iran Sanctions Extension Act. [Public
Law 114-277.]
S. 8 (Corker)--A bill to provide for the approval of the
Agreement for Cooperation Between the Government of the United
States of America and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway
Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy. [Public Law 114-
320.]
S. 284 (Cardin)--Global Magnitsky Human Rights
Accountability Act (Passed as Subtitle F of Title XII of S.
2943 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2017)).*
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S. 802 (Rubio)--Girls Count Act of 2015. [Public Law 114-
24.]
S. 1252 (Casey)--Global Food Security Act of 2016. [Public
Law 114-195.]
S. 1632 (Collins)--A bill to require a regional strategy to
address the threat posed by Boko Haram. [Public Law 114-266.]
S. 1635 (Corker)--Department of State Authority Act, Fiscal
Year 2017. [Public Law 114-323.]
S. 2078 (Corker)--United States Commission on International
Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2015. [Public Law 114-
71.]
S. 2143 (Cornyn)--A bill to provide for the authority for
the successors and assigns of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company
to maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande
near Rio Grande City, Texas, and for other purposes. [Public
Law 114-163.]
S. 2152 (Corker)--Electrify Africa Act of 2015. [Public Law
114-121.]
S. 2426 (Gardner)--A bill to direct the Secretary of State
to develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in
the International Criminal Police Organization, and for other
purposes. [Public Law 114-139.]
S. 2845 (Rubio)--Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and
Civil Society Extension Act of 2016. [Public Law 114-194.]
Section 1288 of S. 2943 (Royce)--Modification of United
States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (enacted as a
section of the Conference version of S. 2943, the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017).*
Legislation Passed by the House and Senate
H.R. 515 (Smith)--International Megan's Law to Prevent
Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced
Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders.
H.R. 2297 (Royce)--Hizballah International Financing
Prevention Act of 2015.
H.Con.Res.122 (Pearce)--PROTECT Patrimony Resolution.
H.Con.Res.142 (Becerra)--Supporting the bid of Los Angeles,
California, to bring the 2024 Summer Olympic Games back to the
United States and pledging the cooperation of Congress with
respect to that bid.
S.Con.Res.46 (Nelson)--A concurrent resolution expressing
support for the goal of ensuring that all Holocaust victims
live with dignity, comfort, and security in their remaining
years, and urging the Federal Republic of Germany to continue
to reaffirm its commitment to comprehensively address the
unique health and welfare needs of vulnerable Holocaust
victims, including home care and other medically prescribed
needs.
Legislation Passed by the House
H.R. 8 (Upton)--North American Energy Security and
Infrastructure Act of 2015.
H.R. 237 (Poe)--FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015.
H.R. 350 (Noem)--Human Trafficking Prevention, Intervention
and Recovery Act of 2015.
H.R. 357 (Maloney)--Human Trafficking Prevention Act.
H.R. 400 (Royce)--Trafficking Prevention in Foreign Affairs
Contracting Act.
H.R. 514 (Smith)--Human Trafficking Prioritization Act.
H.R. 515 (Smith)--International Megan's Law to Prevent
Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced
Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders.
H.R. 702 (Barton)--To adapt to changing crude oil market
conditions.
H.R. 907 (Ros-Lehtinen)--United States-Jordan Defense
Cooperation Act of 2015.
H.R. 1150 (Smith)--Frank R. Wolf International Religious
Freedom Act.
H.R. 1493 (Engel)--Protect and Preserve International
Cultural Property Act.
H.R. 1567 (Smith)--Global Food Security Act of 2016.
H.R. 1853 (Salmon)--To direct the President to develop a
strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the
International Criminal Police Organization, and for other
purposes.
H.R. 2241 (Sires)--Global Health Innovation Act of 2015.
H.R. 2297 (Royce)--Hizballah International Financing
Prevention Act of 2015.
H.R. 2494 (Royce)--Global Anti-Poaching Act.
H.R. 2845 (Royce)--AGOA Enhancement Act of 2015.
H.R. 3457 (Meehan)--Justice for Victims of Iranian
Terrorism Act.
H.R. 3460 (Roskam)--To suspend until January 21, 2017, the
authority of the President to waive, suspend, reduce, provide
relief from, or otherwise limit the application of sanctions
pursuant to an agreement related to the nuclear program of
Iran.
H.R. 3654 (Poe)--Combat Terrorist Use of Social Media Act
of 2015.
H.R. 3662 (Russell)--Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act.
H.R. 3694 (Trott)--STOP Organ Trafficking Act.
H.R. 3750 (Issa)--First Responders Passport Act of 2015.
H.R. 3766 (Poe)--Foreign Aid Transparency and
Accountability Act of 2015.
H.R. 3924 (Castro)--Global Development Lab Act of 2016.
H.R. 4245 (Pingree)--To exempt exportation of certain
echinoderms and mollusks from licensing requirements under the
Endangered Species Act of 1973.
H.R. 4314 (Zeldin)--Counterterrorism Screening and
Assistance Act of 2016.
H.R. 4403 (Hurd)--Enhancing Overseas Traveler Vetting Act.
H.R. 4481 (Lowey)--Education for All Act of 2016.
H.R. 4939 (Engel)--United States-Caribbean Strategic
Engagement Act of 2016.
H.R. 4985 (Katko)--Kingpin Designation Improvement Act of
2016.
H.R. 5094 (Engel)--Stability and Democracy for Ukraine Act.
H.R. 5119 (Pompeo)--No 2H2O from Iran Act.
H.R. 5332 (Noem)--Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2016.
H.R. 5461 (Poliquin)--Iranian Leadership Asset Transparency
Act.
H.R. 5484 (Yoho)--State Sponsors of Terrorism Review
Enhancement Act.
H.R. 5537 (Royce)--Digital GAP Act.
H.R. 5631 (McCarthy)--Iran Accountability Act of 2016.
H.R. 5708 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Nicaraguan Investment
Conditionality Act (NICA) of 2016.
H.R. 5732 (Engel)--Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of
2016.
H.R. 5931 (Royce)--Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to
Iran Act.
H.R. 6297 (Royce)--Iran Sanctions Extension Act.
H. Con. Res. 75 (Fortenberry)--Expressing the sense of
Congress that the atrocities perpetrated by ISIL against
religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria include war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
H. Con. Res. 88 (Chabot)--Reaffirming the Taiwan Relations
Act and the Six Assurances as cornerstones of United States-
Taiwan relations.
H. Con. Res. 121 (Smith)--Expressing the sense of the
Congress condemning the gross violations of international law
amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity by the
Government of Syria, its allies, and other parties to the
conflict in Syria, and asking the President to direct his
Ambassador at the United Nations to promote the establishment
of a war crimes tribunal where these crimes could be addressed.
H. Con. Res. 129 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Expressing support for the
goal of ensuring that all Holocaust victims live with dignity,
comfort, and security in their remaining years, and urging the
Federal Republic of Germany to continue to reaffirm its
commitment to this goal through a financial commitment to
comprehensively address the unique health and welfare needs of
vulnerable Holocaust victims, including home care and other
medically prescribed needs.
H. Res. 37 (Poe)--Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives condemning the recent terrorist attacks in
Paris that resulted in the deaths of seventeen innocent persons
and offering condolences to those personally affected by this
cowardly act.
H. Res. 50 (Levin)--Calling or the release of Ukrainian
fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who was captured by Russian
forces in Eastern Ukraine and has been held illegally in a
Russian prison since July 2014.
H. Res. 53 (Kelly)--Condemning the cowardly attacks on
innocent men, women, and children in northeastern Nigeria by
Boko Haram and urging a peaceful and credible national
election.
H. Res. 148 (Deutch)--Calling on the Government of Iran to
follow through on repeated promises of assistance in the case
of Robert Levinson, the longest held United States hostage in
our Nation's history.
H. Res. 162 (Engel)--Calling on the President to provide
Ukraine with military assistance to defend its sovereignty and
territorial integrity.
H. Res. 220 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Condemning the Government of
Iran's state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i minority and
its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human
Rights.
H. Res. 233 (Kildee)--Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives that Iran should immediately release the three
United States citizens that it holds, as well as provide all
known information on any United States citizens that have
disappeared within its borders.
H. Res. 293 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Expressing concern over anti-
Israel and anti-Semitic incitement within the Palestinian
Authority.
H. Res. 310 (Smith)--Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives regarding Srebrenica.
H. Res. 337 (Engel)--Calling for substantive dialogue,
without preconditions, in order to address Tibetan grievances
and secure a negotiated agreement for the Tibetan people.
H. Res. 343 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Expressing concern regarding
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 and members of other religious and
ethnic minority groups.
H. Res. 348 (Cicilline)--Supporting the right of the people
of Ukraine to freely elect their government and determine their
future.
H. Res. 354 (Smith)--Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives regarding the safety and security of Jewish
communities in Europe.
H. Res. 374 (Heck)--Reaffirming Singapore's strategic
partnership with the United States, encompassing broad and
robust economic, military-to-military, law enforcement, and
counterterrorism cooperation.
H. Res. 411 (Pompeo)--Finding that the President has not
complied with section 2 of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review
Act of 2015.
H. Res. 524 (Royce)--Condemning in the strongest terms the
terrorist attacks in Paris, France, on November 13, 2015, that
resulted in the loss of at least 129 lives.
H. Res. 536 (Sires)--Supporting freedom of the press in
Latin America and the Caribbean and condemning violations of
press freedom and violence against journalists, bloggers, and
individuals exercising their right to freedom of speech.
H. Res. 634 (Salmon)--Recognizing the importance of the
United States-Republic of Korea-Japan trilateral relationship
to counter North Korean threats and nuclear proliferation, and
to ensure regional security and human rights.
H. Res. 658 (Poe)--Condemning in the strongest terms the
terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016, which murdered
more than 30 innocent people, and severely wounded many more.
H. Res. 660 (Poe)--Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives to support the territorial integrity of
Georgia.
H. Res. 716 (King)--Recognizing the deep and abiding
friendship between the United States and Ireland and
recommending actions to further strengthen those ties.
H. Res. 728 (Lowenthal)--Supporting human rights,
democracy, and the rule of law in Cambodia.
H. Res. 729 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Expressing support for the
expeditious consideration and finalization of a new, robust,
and long-term Memorandum of Understanding on military
assistance to Israel between the United States Government and
the Government of Israel.
H. Res. 780 (Smith)--Urging respect for the constitution of
the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the democratic
transition of power in 2016.
H. Res. 806 (Wilson)--Expressing condolences for the
killing of the British Member of Parliament (MP) Jo Cox.
H. Res. 810 (Israel)--Expressing the sense of the House of
Representatives regarding the life and work of Elie Wiesel in
promoting human rights, peace, and Holocaust remembrance.
H. Res. 823 (Foxx)--Condemning in the strongest terms the
terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 28, 2016, that
resulted in the loss of at least 44 lives.
H. Res. 827 (Ros-Lehtinen)--Condemning the terrorist attack
on the Pulse Orlando nightclub, honoring the memory of the
victims of the attack, offering condolences to and expressing
support for their families and friends and all those affected,
and applauding the dedication and bravery of law enforcement,
emergency response, and counterterrorism officials in
responding to the attack.
H. Res. 842 (McCarthy)--Expressing the sense of the House
of Representatives regarding the terrorist attacks launched
against the United States on September 11, 2001, on the 15th
anniversary of that date.
H. Res. 851 (Wasserman Schultz)--Expressing profound
concern about the ongoing political, economic, social and
humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, urging the release of
political prisoners, and calling for respect of constitutional
and democratic processes.
H. Res. 891 (Stewart)--Expressing concern over the
disappearance of David Sneddon, and for other purposes.
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 are listed in section II (A)
above).
A. Full Committee
January 13, 2015--The North Korean Threat: Nuclear,
Missiles and Cyber. The Honorable Sung Kim, Special
Representative for North Korea Policy and Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Korea and Japan, U.S. Department of State; The
Honorable Daniel Glaser, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist
Financing, Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S.
Department of the Treasury; Brigadier General Gregory J.
Touhill, USAF, Retired, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Cybersecurity Operations and Programs, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security.
January 27, 2015--Iran Nuclear Negotiations After the
Second Extension: Where Are They Going? The Honorable Eric S.
Edelman, Distinguished Fellow, Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments; Mr. John Hannah, Senior Fellow,
Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Mr. Ray Takeyh, Senior
Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign
Relations; The Honorable Robert Einhorn, Senior Fellow, Foreign
Policy Program, The Brookings Institution.
February 4, 2015--Cuba: Assessing the Administration's
Sudden Shift. The Honorable Roberta S. Jacobson, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Mr. John E. Smith, Deputy Director, Office
of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Mr.
Matthew S. Borman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S.
Department of Commerce.
February 12, 2015--The Growing Strategic Threat of ISIS.
The Honorable James F. Jeffrey, Philip Solondz Distinguished
Visiting Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy;
Dafna H. Rand, Ph.D., Leon E. Panetta Fellow and Deputy
Director of Studies, Center for a New American Security; Rick
Brennan, Jr., Ph.D., Senior Political Scientist, RAND
Corporation.
February 25, 2015--Advancing U.S. Interests in a Troubled
World: The FY 2016 Foreign Affairs Budget. The Honorable John
F. Kerry, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State.
March 4, 2015--Ukraine Under Siege. The Honorable Victoria
Nuland, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian
Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
March 17, 2015--The FY 2016 Budget Request: Assessing U.S.
Foreign Assistance Effectiveness. The Honorable Alfonso E.
Lenhardt, Acting Administrator, U.S. Agency for International
Development; The Honorable Dana J. Hyde, Chief Executive
Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation.
March 19, 2015--Negotiations with Iran: Blocking or Paving
Tehran's Path to Nuclear Weapons? The Honorable Antony J.
Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State;
Mr. Adam J. Szubin, Acting Under Secretary, Office of Terrorism
and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
March 26, 2015--The Administration's Strategy to Confront
ISIS. General John Allen, USMC, Retired, Special Presidential
Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL; Brigadier
General Michael Fantini, USAF, Middle East Principal Director,
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense; Brigadier General
Gregg Olson, USMC, Deputy Director for Middle East, Joint Staff
Strategic Plans and Policy, U.S. Department of Defense.
April 15, 2015--Confronting Russia's Weaponization of
Information. Mr. Peter Pomerantsev, Senior Fellow, The Legatum
Institute; Ms. Helle C. Dale, Senior Fellow for Public
Diplomacy, The Heritage Foundation; Ms. Elizabeth Wahl, Former
RT Anchor, Freelance Journalist/Public Speaker.
April 22, 2015--Nuclear Agreement with Iran: Can't Trust,
Can We Verify? Mr. Charles Duelfer, Chairman, Omnis, Inc.
(former Chairman, UN Special Commission on Iraq [UNSCOM]); 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. David
Albright, Founder and President, Institute for Science and
International Security.
May 13, 2015--Ancient Communities Under Attack: ISIS's War
on Religious Minorities. Sister Diana Momeka, OP, Dominican
Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena, Mosul, Iraq; Ms. Hind
Kabawat, Director of Interfaith Peacebuilding, Center for World
Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution, George Mason
University; Ms. Jacqueline Isaac, Vice President, Roads of
Success; Katharyn Hanson, Ph.D., Fellow Penn Cultural Heritage
Center, University of Pennsylvania Museum.
May 14, 2015--Advancing U.S. Economic Interests in Asia.
The Honorable Daniel R. Russel, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The
Honorable Charles H. Rivkin, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Economic and Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
June 2, 2015--Americans Detained in Iran. Mr. Ali Rezaian
(brother of Jason Rezaian); Mrs. Naghmeh Abedini (wife of Saeed
Abedini); Ms. Sarah Hekmati (sister of Amir Hekmati); Mr.
Daniel Levinson (son of Robert Levinson).
June 16, 2015--Advancing United States' Interests at the
United Nations. The Honorable Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent
Representative, United States Mission to the United Nations,
U.S. Department of State.
June 17, 2015--Assad's Abhorrent Chemical Weapons Attacks.
The Honorable Robert Ford, Senior Fellow, The Middle East
Institute; Mohamed Tennari, M.D., Idlib Coordinator, Syrian-
American Medical Society; Mr. Farouq Habib, Syria Program
Manager, Mayday Rescue; Annie Sparrow, M.B.B.S., Deputy
Director Human Rights Program, Assistant Professor of Global
Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
July 9, 2015--Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with
Iran. The Honorable Stephen G. Rademaker, Foreign Policy
Project Advisor, Bipartisan Policy Center (former Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Arms Control & Bureau of International
Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State);
Michael Doran, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Michael
Makovsky, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, JINSA Germunder
Center Iran Task Force; Kenneth M. Pollack, Ph.D., Senior
Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings
Institution.
July 14, 2015--Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with
Iran (Part II). The Honorable Joseph I. Lieberman, Co-Chair,
Iran Task Force, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
(former United States Senator); General Michael V. Hayden,
USAF, Retired, Principal, Chertoff Group (former Director,
Central Intelligence Agency); The Honorable R. Nicholas Burns,
Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University (former Under Secretary for Political
Affairs, U.S. Department of State); Ray Takeyh, Ph.D., Senior
Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations.
July 23, 2015--Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with
Iran (Part III). The Honorable Robert Joseph, Ph.D., Senior
Scholar, National Institute for Public Policy (former Under
Secretary of State for Arms Control and International
Security); Mr. Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director, Foundation
for the Defense of Democracies; Mr. Ilan Goldenberg, Senior
Fellow and Director, Middle East Security Program, Center for a
New American Security.
July 28, 2015--Iran Nuclear Agreement: The Administration's
Case. The Honorable John F. Kerry, Secretary of State, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Jacob Lew, Secretary of the
Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury; The Honorable Ernest
Moniz, Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy.
July 29, 2015--Women Under ISIS Rule: From Brutality to
Recruitment. Ms. Sasha Havlicek, Chief Executive Officer,
Institute for Strategic Dialogue; Ariel Ahram, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor, Virginia Tech School of Public and International
Affairs; Mr. Edward Watts, Director and Producer, Escaping
ISIS; Kathleen Kuehnast, Ph.D., Director, Gender and
Peacebuilding, Center for Governance, Law and Society, United
States Institute of Peace.
September 9, 2015--Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with
Iran (Part IV). General Chuck Wald, USAF, Retired, (Former
Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command; Admiral William
Fallon, USN, Retired (former Commander, U.S. Central Command);
Vice Admiral John Bird, USN, Retired (former Commander, U.S.
Seventh Fleet); Mr. Leon Wieseltier, Isaiah Berlin Senior
Fellow in Culture and Policy, Foreign Policy and Governance
Studies, The Brookings Institution.
September 30, 2015--Cyber War: Definitions, Deterrence, and
Foreign Policy. James Andrew Lewis, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and
Director, Strategic Technologies Program, Center for Strategic
and International Studies; Catherine Lotrionte, Ph.D.,
Director, Institute for Law, Science and Global Security,
Georgetown University; Mr. Bob Butler, Adjunct Senior Fellow,
Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New
American Security.
October 7, 2015--Reforming Food Aid: Desperate Need to Do
Better. The Honorable Dan Glickman, Vice President and
Executive Director, Aspen Institute Congressional Program
(former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture); The
Honorable Rajiv Shah, Senior Advisor, Chicago Council on Global
Affairs (former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International
Development); Christopher B. Barrett, Ph.D., David J. Nolan
Director, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor, Charles H.
Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell
University; The Reverend David Beckmann, President, Bread for
the World.
October 22, 2015--Words Have Consequences: Palestinian
Authority Incitement to Violence. Mr. Elliott Abrams, Senior
Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign
Relations; Jonathan Schanzer, Ph.D., Vice President for
Research, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Mr. David
Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, Director, Project on
the Middle East Peace Process, Irwin Levy Family Program on the
U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship, The Washington Institute
for Near East Policy.
November 4, 2015--U.S. Policy After Russia's Escalation in
Syria. The Honorable Anne W. Patterson, Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The
Honorable Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
November 17, 2015--Women and Technology: Increasing
Opportunity and Driving International Development. Ms. Geena
Davis, Founder and Chair, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in
Media (Special Envoy for Women and Girls, International
Telecommunication Union); Ms. Joyce Warner, Senior Vice
President and Chief of Staff, International Research and
Exchanges Board; Ms. Sonia Jorge, Executive Director, Alliance
for Affordable Internet.
November 18, 2015--The Rise of Radicalism: Growing
Terrorist Sanctuaries and the Threat to the U.S. Homeland.
(Jointly held with the Committee on Homeland Security.) General
Jack Keane, USA, Retired, Chairman of the Board, Institute for
the Study of War; Mr. Peter Bergen, Vice President and
Director, New America; The Honorable Matthew G. Olsen, Co-
Founder and President, Business Development and Strategy,
IronNet Cybersecurity (former Director, National
Counterterrorism Center).
December 2, 2015--Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps:
Fueling Middle East Turmoil. Mr. Ali Alfoneh, Senior Fellow,
Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Mr. Scott Modell,
Managing Director, The Rapidan Group; Mr. Daniel Benjamin,
Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director, The John Sloan Dickey Center
for International Understanding, Dartmouth College (former
Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S.
Department of State).
December 16, 2015--The Future of U.S.-Pakistan Relations.
The Honorable Richard Olson, Special Representative for
Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Department of State.
February 10, 2016--From Iraq and Syria to Libya and Beyond:
The Evolving ISIL Threat. The Honorable Brett McGurk, Special
Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL,
U.S. Department of State.
February 11, 2016--Iran Nuclear Oversight: Implementation
and Its Consequences. The Honorable Stephen D. Mull, Lead
Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation, U.S. Department of
State; Mr. John Smith, Acting Director, Office of Foreign
Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
February 25, 2015--Strengthening U.S. Leadership in a
Turbulent World: The FY 2017 Foreign Affairs Budget. The
Honorable John F. Kerry, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of
State.
March 15, 2016--Review of the FY 2017 Foreign Assistance
Budget: Aligning Interests, Ensuring Effectiveness and
Transparency. The Honorable Gayle Smith, Administrator, U.S.
Agency for International Development; The Honorable Dana J.
Hyde, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge
Corporation.
March 22, 2016--Women Fighting for Peace: Lessons for
Today's Conflicts. Her Excellency Monica McWilliams, Professor
of Women's Studies, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster
University; Hassan Abbas, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Regional
and Analytical Studies Department, National Defense University;
Ms. Jacqueline O'Neill, Director, The Institute for Inclusive
Security.
March 23, 2016--The Administration's Plan to Close the
Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility: At What Foreign Policy and
National Security Cost? Mr. Lee Wolosky, Special Envoy for
Guantanamo Closure, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Paul M.
Lewis, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Detention Closure, U.S.
Department of Defense.
April, 28, 2016--America as a Pacific Power: Challenges and
Opportunities in Asia. The Honorable Antony J. Blinken, Deputy
Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State.
May 12, 2016--Terrorism, Missiles and Corruption: The Risks
of Economic Engagement with Iran. The Honorable Juan C. Zarate,
Chairman, Financial Integrity Network; Mr. Mark Dubowitz,
Executive Director, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies;
Ms. Elizabeth Rosenberg, Senior Fellow and Director, Energy,
Economics and Security Program, Center for a New American
Security.
May 25, 2016--Iran Nuclear Deal Oversight: Implementation
and Its Consequences (Part II). The Honorable Stephen D. Mull,
Lead Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Thomas M. Countryman,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Security and
Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Adam J. Szubin,
Acting Under Secretary, Office of Terrorism and Financial
Intelligence, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
June 14, 2016--U.S. Policy Toward Putin's Russia. The
Honorable Michael McFaul, Senior Fellow and Director at the
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford
University; The Honorable Jack Matlock, Fellow, Rubenstein
Fellows Academy, Duke University; Leon Aron, Ph.D., Resident
Scholar and Director of Russian Studies, The American
Enterprise Institute.
June 23, 2016--Countering the Virtual Caliphate. Mr. Seamus
Hughes, Deputy Director, Program on Extremism, Center for Cyber
and Homeland Security, George Washington University; Aaron
Lobel, Ph.D., Founder and President, America Abroad Media;
Peter Neumann, Ph.D., Director, International Centre for the
Study of Radicalisation, Department of War Studies, King's
College London.
July 6, 2016--Financially Rewarding Terrorism in the West
Bank. David Pollock, Ph.D., Kaufman Fellow, Washington
Institute for Near East Policy; Mr. Yigal Carmon, President and
Founder, Middle East Media Research Institute; The Honorable
Robert Wexler, President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle
East Peace.
July 7, 2016--Demanding Accountability: The
Administration's Reckless Release of Terrorists from
Guantanamo. Mr. Lee Wolosky, Special Envoy for Guantanamo
Closure, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Paul M. Lewis, Special
Envoy for Guantanamo Detention Closure, U.S. Department of
Defense.
July 12, 2016--Human Rights Under Siege Worldwide. The
Honorable Mark P. Lagon, President, Freedom House; Thomas Farr,
Ph.D., President, Religious Freedom Institute; Ms. Amanda
Schnetzer, Director, Human Freedom Initiative, The George W.
Bush Institute; Mr. Mark Bromley, Chair, The Council for Global
Equality.
July 13, 2016--Countering the Virtual Caliphate: The State
Department's Performance. The Honorable Richard Stengel, Under
Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, U.S.
Department of State.
September 8, 2016--Reforming the National Security Council:
Efficiency and Accountability. The Honorable David C. Miller,
Jr., Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council; The
Honorable Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., Chairman of the Board,
The Stimson Center; The Honorable Derek Chollet, Counselor and
Senior Advisor for Security and Defense Policy, The German
Marshall Fund of the United States.
December 6, 2016--American Compassion in India; Government
Obstacles. Mr. Stephen Oakley, General Counsel and Vice
President of the General Counsel Office, Compassion
International; Mr. John Sifton, Acting Deputy Washington
Director, Asia Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch; Irfan
Nooruddin, Ph.D., Hamad bin Khalifa Professor of Indian
Politics, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown
University.
B. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and
International Organizations
January 27, 2015--Nigeria on the Brink? The Honorable
Robert P. Jackson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; J. Peter Pham,
Ph.D., Director, Africa Center, Atlantic Council; Mr. Jadegoke
Adebonajo Badejo, Principal Partner, Bonajo Badejo & Co.; Mr.
Emmanuel Ogebe, Manager, Peaceful Polls 2015 Project; Chris
Fomunyoh, Ph.D., Senior Associate and Regional Director for
Central and West Africa, National Democratic Institute.
February 5, 2015--Human Rights in Cuba: A Squandered
Opportunity. Mr. Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, Secretary General,
Cuban National Civic Resistance Front; Ms. Berta Soler
Fernandez, Leader, Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco); Ms. Sara
Martha Fonseca Quevedo, Member, Ladies in White (Damas de
Blanco); Mr. Geoff Thale, Program Director, Washington Office
on Latin America.
February 12, 2015--The Syrian Humanitarian Crisis: Four
Years Later and No End in Sight. (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.) Ms. Kelly
Tallman Clements, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State;
Mr. Thomas Staal, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency
for International Development.
February 26, 2015--The Shame of Iranian Human Rights.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa.) Mr. Shayan Arya, Central Committee Member,
Constitutionalist Party of Iran (Liberal Democrat); Mr. Mohsen
Sazegara, President, Research Institute on Contemporary Iran;
Mr. Anthony Vance, Director, U.S. Baha'i Office of Public
Affairs.
March 18, 2015--U.S. Election Support in Africa. The
Honorable Eric G. Postel, Assistant to the Administrator,
Bureau for Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development;
Mr. William Sweeney, President and Chief Executive Officer,
International Foundation for Electoral Systems; Ms. Gretchen
Birkle, Regional Director for Africa, International Republican
Institute; Mr. Eric Robinson, Senior Program Officer for East
and Horn of Africa, National Endowment for Democracy; Mr.
Patrick Merloe, Director of Electoral Programs and Senior
Associate, National Democratic Institute.
March 24, 2015--After Paris and Copenhagen: Responding to
the Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism. The Honorable Ronald S.
Lauder, President, World Jewish Congress; Mr. Roger Cukierman,
President, Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of
France; Mr. Dan Rosenberg Asmussen, President, Danish Jewish
Community.
March 25, 2015--The Goldman Act to Return Abducted American
Children: Reviewing Obama Administration Implementation. The
Honorable Susan S. Jacobs, Special Advisor for Children's
Issues, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
Mr. Jeffery Morehouse, Executive Director, BAC Home (father of
abducted child to Japan); Ms. Bindu Philips (mother of abducted
children to India); Mr. Devon M. Davenport (father of abducted
child to Brazil); Mr. Scott Sawyer, Vice President of
Operations, Global Future (father of abducted child to Japan).
April 15, 2015--Markup. H.R. 1150, To amend the
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to improve the
ability of the United States to advance religious freedom
globally through enhanced diplomacy, training,
counterterrorism, and foreign assistance efforts, and through
stronger and more flexible political responses to religious
freedom violations and violent extremism worldwide, and for
other purposes; and H. Res. 50, Calling for the release of
Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who was captured by
Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine and has been held illegally
in a Russian prison since July 2014.
April 15, 2015--The Continuing Threat of Neglected Tropical
Diseases. Ariel Pablos Mendez, M.D., Assistant Administrator,
Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International
Development; Peter J. Hotez, M.D., President, Sabin Vaccine
Institute; Mr. Nicholas Kourgialis, Vice President, Eye Health,
Helen Keller International.
April 22, 2015--Accountability and Transformation: Tier
Rankings in the Fight Against Human Trafficking. The Honorable
Mark Lagon, President, Freedom House (former Ambassador-at-
Large for Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State);
Mr. Matthew Smith, Executive Director, Fortify Rights; Fr. Shay
Cullen, President/Chief Executive Officer, PREDA Foundation;
Mr. Jesse Eaves, Humanity United, Director of Policy and
Government Relations.
April 29, 2015--The Global Magnitsky Human Rights
Accountability Act. Mr. William Browder, Chief Executive
Officer, Hermitage Capital Management; Ms. Rebiya Kadeer,
President, World Uyghur Congress; Mr. Kenneth R. Weinstein,
President and Chief Executive Officer, Hudson Institute; Daniel
Calingaert, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Freedom House.
May 14, 2015--A Pathway to Freedom: Rescue and Refuge for
Sex Trafficking Victims. The Honorable Sean Reyes, Attorney
General, State of Utah; Mr. Tim Ballard, Founder and Chief
Executive Officer, Operation Underground Railroad; Ms. Karla
Jacinto Romero, Survivor of Human Trafficking and Advocate,
Commission United vs. Trafficking; The Honorable Rosi Orozco,
President, Commission United vs. Trafficking (former Mexican
Congresswoman).
May 14, 2015--Markup. H.R. 2140, To promote freedom, human
rights, and the rule of law as part of United States-Vietnam
relations; and H. Res. 213, Condemning the April 2015 terrorist
attack at the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, and
reaffirming the United States support for the people and
Government of Kenya, and for other purposes.
May 20, 2015--Developments in Rwanda. The Honorable Robert
P. Jackson, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Steven
Feldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State;
Mr. David Himbara, Coordinator for the USA and Canada,
Democracy in Rwanda Now (former Aide to the President of
Rwanda); Major Robert Higiro, RDF, Retired, Coordinator for
Belgium, Democracy in Rwanda Now; Mr. Willis Shalita,
Photojournalist and Blogger; Ms. Sarah Margon, Washington
Director, Human Rights Watch.
June 3, 2015--The Future of U.S.-Zimbabwe Relations.
Shannon Smith, Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Ben Freeth,
Executive Director, Mike Campbell Foundation; Ms. Imani
Countess, Regional Program Director for Africa, The Solidarity
Center.
June 11, 2015--The Goldman Act to Return Abducted American
Children. Ms. Karen Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Henry
Hand, Director, Office of Children's Issues, Bureau of Consular
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Ravindra Parmar (father
of abducted child to India); Ms. Edeanna Barbirou (mother of
abducted child to Tunisia); Christopher Savoie, Ph.D. (father
of abducted child to Japan); Mr. Preston Findlay, Counsel,
Missing Children's Division, National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children.
June 17, 2015--Human Rights Abuses by Vietnamese
Authorities. Mr. Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay), Writer, Free
Journalists Club of Vietnam; Mrs. Doan Thi Hong-Anh (wife of a
torture victim); Nguyen Dinh Thang, Ph.D., Executive Director,
Boat People SOS; The Reverend Nguyen Manh Hung, Vietnam
Interfaith Council.
June 25, 2015--Is Academic Freedom Threatened by China's
Influence on U.S. Universities? Ms. Susan V. Lawrence,
Specialist in Asian Affairs, Congressional Research Service;
Mr. Jeffrey S. Lehman, Vice Chancellor, New York University--
Shanghai; Mirta M. Martin, Ph.D., President, Fort Hays State
University; Ms. Yaxue Cao, Founder and Editor, China Change;
Mr. Robert Daly, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the
U.S., Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
July 9, 2015--Africa's Displaced People. Ms. Catherine
Wiesner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration, U.S. Department of State;
Mr. Thomas H. Staal, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency
for International Development; Mr. John Stauffer, President,
The America Team for Displaced Eritreans; Ms. Ann
Hollingsworth, Senior Advocate for Government Relations,
Refugees International; Ms. Natalie Eisenbarth, Policy &
Advocacy Officer, International Rescue Committee.
July 16, 2015--The Goldman Act to Return Abducted American
Children: Ensuring Accurate Numbers and Administration Action.
The Honorable Susan S. Jacobs, Special Advisor for Children's
Issues, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
Ms. Kelly Rutherford, Co-Founder, Children's Justice Campaign;
Samina Rahman, M.D. (mother of child abducted to India); Ms.
Diane McGee (mother of children abducted to Japan); Mr. Randy
Collins, Managing Director, Bring Abducted Children Home
(father of child abducted to Japan); Ms. Patricia Apy, Partner,
Paras, Apy & Reiss, P.C.
July 22, 2015--The Unfolding Crisis in Burundi. Mr. Michael
Jobbins, Director of Global Affairs, Search for Common Ground;
Elavie Ndura, Ph.D., Professor of Education, George Mason
University; Ms. Alissa Wilson, Public Education and Advocacy
Coordinator for Africa, American Friends Service Committee; Mr.
Steve McDonald, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars.
September 9, 2015--The Role of Water in Avoiding Conflict
and Building Prosperity. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on
Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.) Mr. John Oldfield,
Chief Executive Officer, WASH Advocates; Mr. Denis Bilodeau,
1st Vice President, County Water District Board of Directors;
Dale Whittington, Ph.D, Professor, University of North
Carolina.
September 30, 2015--Ridding Central Africa of Joseph Kony:
Continuing U.S. Support. Mr. Paul Ronan, Co-Founder and Project
Director, The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative; Mr. Sasha Lezhnev,
Associate Director of Policy, Enough Project; Ms. Francisca
Mbikabele Thelin, Founder and President, Friends of Minzoto.
October 7, 2015--Food Security and Nutrition Programs in
Africa. Carolyn Woo, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive
Officer, Catholic Relief Services; Mr. David Hong, Director of
Global Policy, One Acre Fund; Mr. Roger Thurow, Senior Fellow,
Global Agriculture and Food, The Chicago Council on Global
Affairs.
October 22, 2015--Africa's Great Lakes Region: A Security,
Political, and Humanitarian Challenge. The Honorable Linda
Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Thomas
Perriello, Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa,
U.S. Department of State.
October 27, 2015--The Global Crisis of Religious Freedom.
The Honorable David N. Saperstein, Ambassador-at-Large for
International Religious Freedom, U.S. Department of State;
Robert P. George, Ph.D., Chairman, U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom.
November 4, 2015--Demanding Accountability: Evaluating the
2015 ``Trafficking in Persons Report.'' Kari Johnstone, Ph.D.,
Principal Deputy Director, Office to Monitor and Combat
Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State; Mr. James
Carouso, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Alex
Lee, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Mark Lagon,
President, Freedom House (former Ambassador-at-Large for
Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State).
November 19, 2015--The Goldman Act to Return Abducted
American Children: Ensuring Administration Action. The
Honorable Michele Thoren Bond, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. David Goldman,
Co-Founder and Director, Bring Sean Home Foundation (father of
child abducted to Brazil); Captain Paul Toland, USN, Co-Founder
and National Director, Bring Abducted Children Home (father of
child abducted to Japan).
December 8, 2015--Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: The Next
Global Health Crisis? Tom Frieden, M.D., Director, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention; The Honorable Ariel Pablos-
Mendez, M.D., Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global
Health, U.S. Agency for International Development; The
Honorable Eric P. Goosby, M.D., Special Envoy on Tuberculosis,
United Nations (briefer).
December 9, 2015--Fulfilling the Humanitarian Imperative:
Assisting Victims of ISIS Violence. Gregory H. Stanton, Ph.D.,
President, Genocide Watch; The Most Reverend Bishop Francis
Kalabat, Chaldean Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle in America;
Mr. Mirza Ismail, Founder and Chairman, Yezidi Human Rights
Organization-International; Mr. Carl A. Anderson, Supreme
Knight, Knights of Columbus; Mr. Noah Gottschalk, Senior Policy
Advisor for Humanitarian Response, Oxfam America.
February 10, 2016--The Global Zika Epidemic. (Jointly held
with the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.) Tom Frieden,
M.D., Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 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; The Honorable Ariel Pablos-Mendez,
M.D., Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, U.S.
Agency for International Development.
February 24, 2016--Establishing Accountability at the World
Intellectual Property Organization: Illicit Technology
Transfers, Whistleblowing, and Reform. (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa and the
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.) Mr. James Pooley,
Attorney at Law, Former Deputy Director for Innovation and
Technology, World Intellectual Property Organization; Ms.
Miranda Brown, Former Strategic Adviser to the Director
General, World Intellectual Property Organization; Mr. Matthew
Parish, Founder and Managing Director, Gentium Law Group.
March 2, 2016--The Growing Threat of Cholera and Other
Diseases in the Middle East. Peter J. Hotez, M.D., President,
Sabin Vaccine Institute; Issam I. Raad, M.D., President, Health
Outreach to the Middle East; J. Stephen Morrison, Ph.D., Senior
Vice President, Director of Global Health Policy Center, Center
for Strategic and International Studies.
March 22, 2016--Get It Right This Time: A Victims-Centered
Trafficking in Persons Report. The Honorable Mark P. Lagon,
President, Freedom House; Mr. Matthew Smith, Executive
Director, Fortify Rights; Ms. Jinhye Jo, President, NKinUSA;
Ms. Maria Werlau, President, Free Society Project.
April 13, 2016--Peacekeepers: Allegations of Abuse and
Absence of Accountability at the United Nations. Mr. Brett
Schaefer, Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory
Affairs, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage
Foundation; Aicha Elbasri, Ph.D., Author, Former Spokesperson,
United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur, United Nations;
Mr. Peter Gallo, Former Investigator, Office of Internal
Oversight Services, United Nations; Mr. Jordie Hannum, Senior
Director, Better World Campaign.
April 27, 2016--South Sudan's Prospects for Peace and
Security. The Honorable Donald Booth, Special Envoy to Sudan
and South Sudan, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Bob Leavitt,
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict,
and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International
Development; Mr. John Prendergast, Founding Director, Enough
Project; Mr. Matt Wells, Program Officer, Center for Civilians
in Conflict; Luka Biong Deng Kuol, Ph.D., Global Fellow, Peace
Research Institute Oslo; Augustino Ting Mayai, Ph.D., Director
of Research, The Sudd Institute.
May 10, 2016--Will President Obama Prioritize the Release
of Prisoners of Conscience in Vietnam? Ms. Vu Minh Khanh, Wife
of Vietnamese Prisoner of Conscience Nguyen Van Dai.
May 11, 2016--The U.S. Role in Helping Nigeria Confront
Boko Haram and Other Threats in Northern Nigeria. The Honorable
Frank R. Wolf, Distinguished Senior Fellow, 21st Century
Wilberforce Initiative; Mr. Emmanuel Ogebe, Special Counsel,
Justice for Jos Project; ``Sa'a'', Chibok Schoolgirl, Education
Must Continue Initiative; Christopher Fomunyoh, Ph.D., Senior
Associate and Regional Director for Central and West Africa,
National Democratic Institute.
May 18, 2016--Democracy Support Strategies in Africa. Mr.
D. Bruce Wharton, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Thomas Staal,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict,
and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International
Development; Mr. Steven Feldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department
of State; Mr. Rushdi Nackerdien, Regional Director for Africa,
International Foundation for Electoral Systems; Mr. Patrick
Merloe, Senior Associate and Director of Election Programs,
National Democratic Institute; Mr. John Tomaszewski, Acting
Regional Director for Africa, International Republican
Institute; Mr. Nii Akuetteh, Executive Director, The African
Immigrant Caucus.
May 26, 2016--The ISIS Genocide Declaration: What Next? Mr.
Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus; Mr.
Sarhang Hamasaeed, Senior Program Officer, Middle East and
Africa Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace; Mr. Johnny Oram,
Executive Director, Chaldean Assyrian Business Alliance; Mr.
David M. Crane, Professor of Practice, Syracuse University,
College of Law, Former Chief Prosecutor, United Nations Special
Court for Sierra Leone; Ms. Naomi Kikoler, Deputy Director,
Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
June 9, 2016--Leveraging U.S. Funds: The Stunning Global
Impact of Nutrition and Supplements During the First 1,000
Days. Beth Dunford, Ph.D., Assistant to the Administrator,
Bureau for Food Security, U.S. Agency for International
Development; Mr. Ajay Markanday, Director, Liaison Office for
North America, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations.
June 16, 2016--The Global Religious Freedom Crisis and Its
Challenge to U.S. Foreign Policy. The Honorable David N.
Saperstein, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious
Freedom, U.S. Department of State; Robert P. George, Ph.D.,
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University,
Former Chairman, U.S. Commission on International Religious
Freedom; M. Zuhdi Jasser, M.D., President, American Islamic
Forum for Democracy, Former Vice-Chair, U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom.
June 22, 2016--The President's Visit to Vietnam: A Missed
Opportunity to Advance Human Rights. Pastor Rmah Loan, Former
Head, Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam--Dak Nong
Province; Ms. Katie Duong, Overseas Representative, Popular
Bloc of Cao Dai Religion; Nguyen Dinh Thang, Ph.D., President
and Chief Executive Officer, Boat People SOS; Mr. T. Kumar,
Director of International Advocacy, Amnesty International.
June 23, 2016--Organ Harvesting: An Examination of a Brutal
Practice. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Europe,
Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.) Mr. David Matas, Senior Legal
Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada; Mr. Ethan Gutmann, Journalist;
Francis L. Delmonico, M.D, Professor of Surgery, Harvard
Medical School; Charles Lee, M.D., Director of Public
Awareness, World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of
Falun Gong.
July 12, 2016--Accountability Over Politics: Scrutinizing
the Trafficking in Persons Report. The Honorable Susan
Coppedge, Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking
in Persons, U.S. Department of State; Mr. David Abramowitz,
Managing Director, Humanity United Action.
July 13, 2016--The Castro Regime's Ongoing Violations of
Civil and Political Rights. Oscar Elias Biscet, M.D.,
President, Lawton Foundation for Human Rights, Former Cuban
political prisoner; Ms. Sirley Avila Leon, Democracy Advocate;
Ms. Maria Werlau, President, Free Society Project; Mr. Geoff
Thale, Program Director, Washington Office on Latin America.
July 14, 2016--Markup. H. Res. 290, Calling for the global
repeal of blasphemy laws.
July 14, 2016--Hope Deferred: Securing Enforcement of the
Goldman Act to Return Abducted American Children. Ms. Karen
Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Chris Brann, M.D., Father of
Child Abducted to Brazil; Ms. Ruchika Abbim, Mother of Child
Abducted to India; Mr. James Cook, Father of Children Abducted
to Japan; Ms. Edeanna Barbirou, Mother of Child Abducted to
Tunisia.
September 7. 2016--The Growing Crisis in South Sudan. The
Honorable Donald Booth, Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan,
U.S. Department of State; Mr. Brian Adeba, Associate Director
of Policy, Enough Project; The Honorable Princeton N. Lyman,
Senior Advisor to the President, U.S. Institute of Peace.
September 14, 2016--Eritrea: A Neglected Regional Threat.
The Honorable Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Father
Habtu Ghebre-Ab, Director of External Relations, Canonical
Eritrean Orthodox Church in Diaspora; Khaled Beshir, Ph.D.,
Board Member, Awate Foundation; Ms. Bronwyn Bruton, Deputy
Director, Africa Center, Atlantic Council.
September 22, 2016--Markup. H.R. 2189, Walter Patterson and
Werner Foerster Justice and Extradition Act; and H.R. 3833, To
require a regional strategy to address the threat posed by Boko
Haram.
C. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
February 26, 2015--Across the Other Pond: U.S.
Opportunities and Challenges in the Asia Pacific. Karl D.
Jackson, Ph.D., C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor of Southeast
Asia Studies, Director of the Asian Studies Program, Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Van Jackson,
Ph.D., Visiting Fellow, Center for a New American Security; Mr.
Matthew P. Goodman, William E. Simon Chair in Political
Economy, Senior Adviser for Asian Economics, Center for
Strategic and International Studies; Mr. Abraham M. Denmark,
Senior Vice President, Political and Security Affairs and
External Relations, The National Bureau of Asian Research; The
Honorable Patrick Mulloy, Trade Lawyer (former Commissioner,
U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission).
March 4, 2015--The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Prospects for
Greater U.S. Trade. Claude Barfield, Ph.D., Resident Scholar,
American Enterprise Institute; Ms. Tami Overby, Senior Vice
President for Asia, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Scott Miller,
Senior Adviser and William M. Scholl Chair in International
Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Ms.
Celeste Drake, Trade and Globalization Policy Specialist, The
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations.
March 24, 2015--The U.S. Rebalance in South Asia: Foreign
Aid and Development Priorities. The Honorable Nisha Desai
Biswal, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan
Stivers, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency
for International Development.
April 23, 2015--The U.S. Rebalance in East Asia: Budget
Priorities for FY 2016. The Honorable Daniel R. Russel,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan Stivers,
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for
International Development.
April 30, 2015--Bangladesh's Fracture: Political and
Religious Extremism. Ms. Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow,
Asian Studies Center, The Davis Institute for National Security
and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation; Ali Riaz, Ph.D.,
Professor, Department of Politics and Government Chair,
Illinois State University; Mr. Jay Kansara, Director,
Government Relations, Hindu American Foundation; Mr. Steven D.
Fleischli, President, U.S.-Bangladesh Trade and Relations
Association; Alyssa Ayres, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for India,
Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
May 20, 2015--Everest Trembled: Lessons Learned from the
Nepal Earthquake Response. The Honorable Nisha Desai Biswal,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan Stivers,
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for
International Development; Mr. Thomas H. Staal, Acting
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and
Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International
Development; Ms. Anne A. Witkowsky, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs, U.S. Department
of Defense.
May 20, 2015--Markup. H.R. 1853, To direct the President to
develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the
International Criminal Police Organization, and for other
purposes; and H. Res.235, Expressing deepest condolences to and
solidarity with the people of Nepal following the devastating
earthquake on April 25, 2015.
June 11, 2015--Retreat or Revival: A Status Report on
Democracy in Asia. The Honorable Tom Malinowski, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan Stivers, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International
Development; The Honorable Scot Marciel, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; Sophie Richardson, Ph.D., China
Director, Human Rights Watch; Ms. Kelley Currie, Senior Fellow,
Project 2049 Institute; Mr. Murray Hiebert, Deputy Director and
Senior Fellow, Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies, Center
for Strategic and International Studies; and Mr. Peter M.
Manikas, Senior Associate and Regional Director for Asia
Programs, The National Democratic Institute.
June 17, 2015--China's Rise: The Strategic Impact of Its
Economic and Military Growth. Derek M. Scissors, Ph.D.,
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Alison
Kaufman, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, China Studies
Division, CNA Corporation; Mr. Jerome A. Cohen, Professor and
Co-Director, U.S.-Asia Law Institute, New York University
School of Law; Mr. Han Dongfang, Founder and Director, China
Labour Bulletin; Adam Hersh, Ph.D., Senior Economist, Roosevelt
Institute.
July 15, 2015--U.S. Economic and Military Alliances in
Asia. Mr. Walter Lohman, Director, Asian Studies Center, The
Heritage Foundation; Mr. Randall Schriver, President and Chief
Executive Officer, Project 2049 Institute; Balbina Hwang,
Ph.D., Visiting Professor, School of International Service,
American University; Mr. James L. Schoff, Senior Associate,
Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
July 16, 2015--Reviewing the U.S.-China Civil Nuclear
Cooperation Agreement. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on
Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.) The Honorable Thomas
M. Countryman, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International
Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State;
Lieutenant General Frank G. Klotz, USAF, Retired, Under
Secretary for Nuclear Security, Administrator, National Nuclear
Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy; Mr. Henry
D. Sokolski, Executive Director, The Nonproliferation Policy
Education Center; Mr. Daniel Lipman, Vice-President, Supplier
and International Programs, Nuclear Energy Institute; Ms.
Sharon Squassoni, Director and Senior Fellow, Proliferation
Prevention Program, Center for Strategic and International
Studies.
July 23, 2015--America's Security Role in the South China
Sea. Patrick M. Cronin, Ph.D., Senior Advisor and Senior
Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New
American Security; Andrew S. Erickson, Ph.D., Associate
Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War
College; Mira Rapp Hooper, Ph.D., Fellow, Asia Program,
Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for
Strategic & International Studies; Michael D. Swaine, Ph.D.,
Senior Associate, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace.
July 28, 2015--The Iran-North Korea Strategic Alliance.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation, and Trade and the Subcommittee on the Middle
East and North Africa.) Mr. Ilan Berman, Vice President,
American Foreign Policy Council; Ms. Claudia Rosett,
Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for Defense of Democracies;
Larry Niksch, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and
International Studies; Jim Walsh, Ph.D., Research Associate,
Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
August 21, 2015--Property Rights and Development in
Southeast Asia. (Field hearing.) The Honorable Jonathan
Stivers, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency
for International Development; Mr. James Carouso, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; Mr. Joey Quinto, Publisher,
California Journal for Filipino Americans; Mr. Richard J.
Rogers, Partner, Global Diligence LLP (attorney representing
Cambodian victims before the International Criminal Court); Ms.
Faith Bautista, President and Chief Executive Officer, National
Asian American Coalition; Mr. Zosimo Laurel Contreras (litigant
in Philippines property dispute).
September 10, 2015--China's Advance in Latin America and
the Caribbean. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the
Western Hemisphere.) Evan Ellis, Ph.D., Author, China on the
Ground in Latin America; Enrique Dussel Peters, Ph.D.,
Director, Center for Chinese-Mexican Studies, School of
Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Ms. Serena
Joseph-Harris, Chief Executive Officer, Sirius International
(Caribbean) Defense Contractors Ltd. (former High Commissioner
of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago); Margaret Myers,
Program Director, China and Latin America, Inter-American
Dialogue.
October 7, 2015--Reviewing President Xi's State Visit. Mr.
Chen Guangcheng, Founder, The Chen Guangcheng Foundation;
Jessica Chen Weiss, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Government,
Cornell University; Mr. Richard Bejtlich, Chief Security
Strategist, FireEye; Scott Kennedy, Ph.D., Director, Project on
Chinese Business and Political Economy, Center for Strategic
and International Studies.
October 21, 2015--Burma's Challenge: Democracy, Human
Rights, Peace, and the Plight of the Rohingya. The Honorable
Daniel R. Russel, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and
Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable
Jonathan Stivers, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia,
U.S. Agency for International Development; The Honorable Tom
Andrews, President, United to End Genocide; Ms. Jennifer
Quigley, President, U.S. Campaign for Burma.
December 2, 2015--U.S. Strategic Interests and the APEC
East Asia Summits. Mr. Michael H. Fuchs, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Strategy and Multilateral Affairs,
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; Mr. Bruce Hirsh, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for
Japan, Korea, and APEC, Office of the United States Trade
Representative.
January 12, 2016--Human Rights in China: The 2015 Annual
Report of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. The
Honorable Christopher H. Smith, Chairman, Congressional-
Executive Commission on China; The Honorable Timothy J. Walz,
Ranking House Member, Congressional-Executive Commission on
China.
January 12, 2016--Markup. H. Res. 339, Expressing the sense
of the House of Representatives regarding the 25th anniversary
of democracy in Mongolia; H. Res. 374, Recognizing the 50th
anniversary of Singaporean independence and reaffirming
Singapore's close partnership with the United States; H. Res.
343, Expressing concern regarding 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
practition.
January 13, 2016--The U.S. Response to North Korea's
Nuclear Provocations. Victor Cha, Ph.D., Senior Adviser and
Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies;
Mr. Bruce Klingner, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia,
The Heritage Foundation; Ms. Bonnie Glaser, Senior Adviser for
Asia, Director of China Power Project, Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
February 11, 2016--The Future of U.S.-Taiwan Relations. Ms.
Susan A. Thornton, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr.
Randall Schriver, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Project 2049 Institute; Ms. Bonnie Glaser, Senior Adviser for
Asia, Director of China Power Project, Center for Strategic and
International Studies; Shelley Rigger, Ph.D., Brown Professor
and Assistant Dean for Educational Policy, Davidson College.
February 24, 2016--Establishing Accountability at the World
Intellectual Property Organization: Illicit Technology
Transfers, Whistleblowing, and Reform. (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa and the
Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and
International Organizations.) Mr. James Pooley, Attorney at
Law, Former Deputy Director for Innovation and Technology,
World Intellectual Property Organization; Ms. Miranda Brown,
Former Strategic Adviser to the Director General, World
Intellectual Property Organization; Mr. Matthew Parish, Founder
and Managing Director, Gentium Law Group.
March 15, 2016--U.S.-India Relations: Democratic Partners
of Economic Opportunity. Alyssa Ayres, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for
India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations;
Mr. Sadanand Dhume, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise
Institute; Mr. Richard M. Rossow, Senior Fellow and Wadhwani
Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies, Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
April 13, 2016--Countering Extremism and the Threat of ISIS
in Southeast Asia. Mr. W. Patrick Murphy, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of East Asia and the Pacific, U.S. Department
of State; Marie Richards, Ph.D., Deputy Counterterrorism
Coordinator for Regional and Multilateral Affairs, Bureau of
Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Gloria Steele,
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Asia, U.S.
Agency for International Development.
April 19, 2016--FY 2017 Budget Priorities for East Asia:
Engagement, Integration, and Democracy. The Honorable Daniel R.
Russel, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan
Stivers, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency
for International Development.
April 27, 2016--Advancing U.S. Interests: Examining the
President's FY 2017 Budget Proposal for Afghanistan and
Pakistan. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Middle
East and North Africa.) The Honorable Richard Olson, U.S.
Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S.
Department of State; Mr. Donald L. Sampler, Jr., Assistant to
the Administrator, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs,
U.S. Agency for International Development.
May 11, 2016--FY 2017 Budget Priorities for South Asia:
Recovery, Development, and Engagement. The Honorable Nisha
Desai Biswal, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central
Asia Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan
Stivers, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency
for International Development.
June 9, 2016--Sri Lanka's Democratic Transition: A New Era
for the U.S.-Sri Lanka Relationship. Ms. Lisa Curtis, Senior
Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, The Davis Institute for
National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation;
Ms. Kara L. Bue, Founding Partner, Armitage International;
Nimmi Gowrinathan, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, Colin Powell
Center for Civic and Global Leadership, City College of new
York, City University of New York.
June 23, 2016--U.S. Policy in the Pacific: The Struggle to
Maintain Influence. Mr. Matthew J. Matthews, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands,
Senior Official for APEC, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Gloria Steele, Senior
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency
for International Development.
July 6, 2016--Markup. H. Res. 210, Affirming and
recognizing the Khmer, Laotian, Hmong, and Montagnard Freedom
Fighters and the people of Cambodia and Laos for their support
and defense of the United States Armed Forces and freedom in
Southeast Asia.; H. Res. 634, Recognizing the importance of the
United States-Republic of Korea- Japan trilateral relationship
to counter North Korean threats and nuclear proliferation, and
to ensure regional security and human rights.; H. Res. 728,
Supporting human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in
Cambodia.; and H.R. 4501, To amend the North Korean Human
Rights Act of 2004 to authorize further actions to promote
freedom of information and democracy in North Korea, and for
other purposes.
July 7, 2016--South China Sea Maritime Disputes. (Jointly
held with the Committee on Armed Services' Subcommittee on
Seapower and Projection Forces.) Mr. Abraham Denmark, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia, U.S. Department
of Defense; Ms. Colin Willett, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Strategy and Multilateral Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and
Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
July 12, 2016--Pakistan: Friend or Foe in the Fight Against
Terrorism? (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation, and Trade.) The Honorable Zalmay Khalilzad,
Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Mr.
Bill Roggio, Senior Editor, Long War Journal, Foundation for
Defense of Democracies; Tricia Bacon, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor, American University.
September 8, 2016--Asia's Growing Hunger for Energy: U.S.
Policy and Supply Opportunities. Mr. Mikkal E. Herberg, Senior
Advisor, Director, Energy Security Program, The National Bureau
of Asian Research; David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D., Senior Research
Fellow for Energy Economics and Climate Change, Center for Data
Analysis, Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, The
Heritage Foundation; Mr. Jake Schmidt, Director, International
Program, Natural Resource Defense Council.
September 14, 2016--North Korea's Perpetual Provocations:
Another Dangerous, Escalatory Nuclear Test. Victor Cha, Ph.D.,
Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and
International Studies; Mr. Bruce Klingner, Senior Research
Fellow for Northeast Asia, The Heritage Foundation; Sue Mi
Terry, Ph.D., Managing Director, Bower Group Asia; Mr. David
Albright, President and Founder, Institute for Science and
International Security.
September 22, 2016--Diplomacy and Security in the South
China Sea: After the Tribunal. Mr. Elbridge Colby, Robert M.
Gates Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security; Mr.
Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, The
Heritage Foundation; Amy Searight, Ph.D., Senior Adviser and
Director, Southeast Asia Program, Center for Strategic and
International Studies; Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D., Professor of
International Affairs, Director of the Institute of
Communitarian Policy Studies, The George Washington University.
September 27, 2016--The U.S.-Republic of Korea-Japan
Trilateral Relationship: Promoting Mutual Interests in Asia.
The Honorable Daniel R. Russel, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
December 6, 2016--Step or Stumble: The Obama
Administration's Pivot to Asia. Mr. Richard J. Ellings, Ph.D.,
President, The National Bureau of Asian Research; Derek M.
Scissors, Ph.D., Resident Scholar, American Enterprise
Institute; Ms. Kelley Currie, Senior Fellow, Project 2049
Institute; Mr. Barry C. Lynn, Director, Open Markets Program,
New America.
D. Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
February 12, 2015--Azerbaijan: U.S. Energy, Security, and
Human Rights Interests. Audrey Altstadt, Ph.D., Fellow, Kennan
Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars;
The Honorable Richard Kauzlarich, Adjunct Professor, School of
Public Policy, George Mason University (former American
Ambassador to Azerbaijan), and Svante Cornell, Ph.D., Director,
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.
April 29, 2015--Progress and Challenges in the Western
Balkans. Mr. Hoyt Brian Yee, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms.
Susan Fritz, Acting Assistant Administrator, Europe and Eurasia
Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr. Ivan
Vejvoda, Senior Vice President, Programs, German Marshall Fund
of the United States; The Honorable Joseph J. DioGuardi,
President, Albanian American Civic League (former Member of
Congress).
May 19, 2015--The Future of U.S.-Hungary Relations. Mr.
Hoyt Brian Yee, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European
and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Andras Simonyi,
Ph.D., Managing Director of the Center for Transatlantic
Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns
Hopkins University (former Hungarian Ambassador to the United
States); The Honorable Kurt Volker, Executive Director, The
McCain Institute for International Leadership, Arizona State
University; Mr. Tad Stahnke, Vice President, Research &
Analysis, Human Rights First.
June 16, 2015--Reviewing the Administration's FY 2016
Budget Request for Europe and Eurasia. Ms. Alina Romanowski,
Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr.
Daniel Rosenblum, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia,
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; The Honorable Jonathan Stivers, Assistant Administrator,
Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development; Ms.
Susan Fritz, Acting Assistant Administrator, Europe and Eurasia
Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development.
July 14, 2015--The European Union's Future. John McCormick,
Ph.D., Jean-Monnet Professor of European Union Politics,
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Stephen
Walt, Ph.D., Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International
Affairs, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Jacob
Funk Kirkegaard, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for
International Economics.
September 9, 2015 --The Role of Water in Avoiding Conflict
and Building Prosperity. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on
Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International
Organizations.) Mr. John Oldfield, Chief Executive Officer,
WASH Advocates; Mr. Denis Bilodeau, 1st Vice President, County
Water District Board of Directors; Dale Whittington, Ph.D,
Professor, University of North Carolina.
September 30, 2015--The Threat of Islamist Extremism in
Russia. Leon Aron, Ph.D., Resident Scholar and Director of
Russian Studies, The American Enterprise Institute; Mr. Simon
Saradzhyan, Assistant Director, U.S.-Russia Initiative to
Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, Harvard University; Mark N. Katz, Ph.D.,
Professor of Government and Politics, School of Policy,
Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University.
November 4, 2015--Challenge to Europe: The Growing Refugee
Crisis. Gary Shiffman, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Center for
Security Studies, Georgetown University; V. Bradley Lewis,
Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, The Catholic
University of America.
November 17, 2015--Charting the Arctic: Security, Economic,
and Resource Opportunities. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee
on the Western Hemisphere.) Admiral Robert Papp, Jr., USCG,
Retired, U.S. Special Representative for the Arctic, U.S.
Department of State; Rear Admiral Timothy C. Gallaudet, USN,
Oceanographer and Navigator, U.S. Department of Defense; Vice
Admiral Charles D. Michel, USCG, Vice Commandant, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
February 3, 2016--Turkey: Political Trends in 2016. Mr.
Nate Schenkkan, Project Director, Nations in Transit, Freedom
House; Gonul Tol, Ph.D., Director, Center for Turkish Studies,
Middle East Institute; Mr. Ali Cinar, President, Assembly of
Turkish American Associations.
March 15, 2016--U.S. Policy Toward National Self-
Determination Movements. Paul R. Williams, Ph.D., President and
Co-Founder, Public International Law and Policy Group; Jason
Sorens, Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Government, Dartmouth
College; Mr. Ivan Vejvoda, Senior Vice President for Programs,
German Marshall Fund of the United States
June 9, 2016--Examining the President's FY 2017 Budget
Proposal for Europe and Eurasia. Ms. Alina Romanowski,
Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr.
Daniel Rosenblum, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia,
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; The Honorable Thomas Melia, Assistant Administrator,
Europe and Eurasia Bureau, U.S. Agency for International
Development; Ms. Ann Marie Yastishock, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
June 23, 2016--Organ Harvesting: An Examination of a Brutal
Practice. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Africa, Global
Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.)
Mr. David Matas, Senior Legal Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada; Mr.
Ethan Gutmann, Journalist; Francis L. Delmonico, M.D, Professor
of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Charles Lee, M.D., Director
of Public Awareness, World Organization to Investigate the
Persecution of Falun Gong.
July 13, 2016--Turkey's Democratic Decline. Henri J.
Barkey, Ph.D., Director, Middle East Program, The Wilson
Center; Fevzi Bilgin, Ph.D., President, Rethink Institute; Mr.
Alan Makovsky, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress.
September 14, 2016--Turkey After the July Coup Attempt. Ms.
Nina Ognianova, Coordinator, Europe and Central Asia Program,
Committee to Protect Journalists; Mr. Alan Makovsky, Senior
Fellow, Center for American Progress; Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D.,
Deputy Director, International Center for the Study of Violent
Extremism; Aaron Stein, Ph.D., Resident Senior Fellow, Rafik
Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council.
December 7, 2016--Corruption: A Danger to Democracy in
Europe and Eurasia. Mr. Charles Davidson, Executive Director,
Kleptocracy Initiative. Hudson Institute; Mr. Ivan Vejvoda,
Senior Vice President for Programs, The German Marshall Fund of
the United States; Mr. Sergei Kolesnikov (former Co-Founder of
Petromed Holding).
E. Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa
February 4, 2015--The Palestinian Authority's International
Criminal Court Gambit: A True Partner for Peace? Jonathan
Schanzer, Ph.D.,Vice President for Research, Foundation for
Defense of Democracies; Mr. Eugene Konotorvich, Professor of
Law, Northwestern University School of Law; Ms. Danielle
Pletka, Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy
Studies, American Enterprise Institute; Mr. David Makovsky,
Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near
East Policy.
February 12, 2015--The Syrian Humanitarian Crisis: Four
Years Later and No End in Sight. (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and
International Organizations.) Ms. Kelly Tallman Clements,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and
Migration, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Thomas Staal, Acting
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and
Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
February 26, 2015--The Shame of Iranian Human Rights.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.) Mr.
Shayan Arya, Central Committee Member, Constitutionalist Party
of Iran (Liberal Democrat); Mr. Mohsen Sazegara, President,
Research Institute on Contemporary Iran; Mr. Anthony Vance,
Director, U.S. Baha'i Office of Public Affairs.
March 18, 2015--Iran and Hezbollah in the Western
Hemisphere. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Western
Hemisphere.) Mr. Joseph Humire, Author; Mr. Dardo Lopez-Dolz
(former Vice Minister of Interior of Peru); Mr. Scott Modell,
Senior Advisor, The Rapidan Group; Mr. Michael Shifter,
President, Inter-American Dialogue.
March 18, 2015--Does the President's FY 2016 Budget Request
Address the Crises in the Middle East and North Africa? The
Honorable Anne W. Patterson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable
Paige Alexander, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle
East, U.S. Agency for International Development.
March 24, 2015--Iran's Noncompliance with Its International
Atomic Energy Agency Obligations. Mr. William H. Tobey, Senior
Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Ms.
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs, Fellow, George C. Marshall Institute;
Mr. David Albright, Founder and President, Institute for
Science and International Security.
April 14, 2015--Yemen Under Attack by Iranian-Backed
Houthis. The Honorable Gerald M. Feierstein, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S.
Department of State.
April 30, 2015--Regional Impact of U.S. Policy Towards Iraq
and Syria. Seth G. Jones, Ph. D., Director, International
Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation; General
Jack Keane, USA, Retired, Chairman of the Board, Institute for
the Study of War; Tamara Cofman Wittes, Ph. D., Director,
Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings.
May 20, 2015--Egypt Two Years After Morsi (Part I). Eric
Trager, Ph.D., Esther K. Wagner Fellow, The Washington
Institute for Near East Policy; Mr. Samuel Tadros, Senior
Fellow, Hudson Institute; Nancy Okail, Ph.D., Executive
Director, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.
June 3, 2015--U.S. Policy Towards ISIL After Terror Group
Seizes Ramadi and Palmyra. Michael Rubin, Ph.D., Resident
Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Anthony H. Cordesman,
Ph.D., Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic
and International Studies; Matthew Spence, Ph.D. (former Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Middle East Policy, U.S. Department of
Defense).
June 10, 2015--Iran's Enduring Ballistic Missile Threat.
Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, USA, Retired (former
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency); The Honorable Robert
Joseph, Ph.D., Senior Scholar, National Institute for Public
Policy (former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and
International Security); David A. Cooper, Ph.D., James V.
Forrestal Professor and Chair of the Department of National
Security Affairs, U.S. Naval War College; Anthony H. Cordesman,
Ph.D., Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic
and International Studies.
June 17, 2015--The Iran, North Korea, and Syria
Nonproliferation Act: State Department's Non-Compliance. Mr.
Thomas Melito, Director, International Affairs and Trade,
Government Accountability Office.
July 9, 2015--The Gulf Cooperation Council Camp David
Summit: Any Results? Mr. Michael Eisenstadt, Kahn Fellow,
Director, Military and Security Studies Program, The Washington
Institute for Near East Policy; Mr. J. Matthew McInnis,
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; David Andrew
Weinberg, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of
Democracies; Kenneth Katzman, Ph.D., Specialist in Middle
Eastern Affairs, Congressional Research Service.
July 14, 2015--Tunisia's Fragile Democratic Transition. The
Honorable Mark Green, President, International Republican
Institute; Mr. Leslie Campbell, Senior Associate and Regional
Director, National Democratic Institute; Mr. Aaron Zelin,
Richard Borow Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East
Policy; Mr. William Sweeney, President and Chief Executive
Officer, International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
July 22, 2015--Promoting U.S. Commerce in the Middle East
and North Africa. Ms. Elizabeth Richard, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs; Mr. Scott Nathan,
Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs,
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.
July 28, 2015--The Iran-North Korea Strategic Alliance.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and
the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.)
Mr. Ilan Berman, Vice President, American Foreign Policy
Council; Ms. Claudia Rosett, Journalist-in-Residence,
Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Larry Niksch, Ph.D.,
Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International
Studies; Jim Walsh, Ph.D., Research Associate, Security Studies
Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
September 17, 2015--Major Beneficiaries of the Iran Deal:
IRGC and Hezbollah. Emanuele Ottolenghi, Ph.D., Senior Fellow,
Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Matthew Levitt, Ph.D.,
Fromer-Wexler Fellow, Director, Stein Program on
Counterterrorism and Intelligence, Washington Institute for
Near East Policy; Suzanne Maloney, Ph.D., Interim Deputy
Director, Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings
Institution.
September 17, 2015--Markup. H. Res. 277, Honoring the
Tunisian People for their democratic transition; and H. Res.
293, Expressing concern over anti-Israel and anti-Semitic
incitement within the Palestinian Authority.
October 8, 2015--Examining the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis
from the Ground (Part I). Ms. Bernice Romero, Senior Director,
Humanitarian Public Policy and Advocacy, Save the Children; Mr.
Mark C. Smith, Senior Director, Humanitarian and Emergency
Affairs, World Vision; Mr. David Ray, Vice President for
Advocacy, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere; Mr.
Michael Bowers, Vice President, Humanitarian Leadership and
Response, Mercy Corps.
October 27, 2015--Examining the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis
from the Ground (Part II). The Honorable Anne C. Richard,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and
Migration, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Leon
Rodriguez, Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Thomas Staal, Senior
Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict
and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
December 2, 2015--Assessing the President's Strategy in
Afghanistan. Frederick W. Kagan, Ph.D., Christopher DeMuth
Chair and Director, Critical Threats Project, American
Enterprise Institute; Mr. David. S. Sedney, Senior Associate,
Center for Strategic and International Studies; Andrew Wilder,
Ph.D., Vice President, Asia Programs, United States Institute
of Peace.
December 16, 2015--Egypt Two Years After Morsi (Part II).
Mr. David Schenker, Aufzien Fellow and Director, Program on
Arab Politics, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Mr.
Eric Bjornlund, President, Democracy International; Steven A.
Cook, Ph.D., Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East
and Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations.
February 11, 2016--Jordan: A Key U.S. Partner. The
Honorable Gerald M. Feierstein, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; Ms. Paige Alexander, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
the Middle East, U.S. Agency for International Development; Ms.
Fatema Z. Sumar, Regional Deputy Vice President, Europe, Asia,
the Pacific and Latin America, Department of Compact
Operations, Millennium Challenge Corporation.
February 11, 2016--Markup. H. Res. 148, Calling on the
government of Iran to fulfill their promises of assistance in
this case of Robert Levinson, the longest held United States
civilian in our Nation's history.
February 24, 2016--Establishing Accountability at the World
Intellectual Property Organization: Illicit Technology
Transfers, Whistleblowing, and Reform. (Jointly held with the
Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and
International Organizations and the Subcommittee on Asia and
the Pacific.) Mr. James Pooley, Attorney at Law (former Deputy
Director for Innovation and Technology, World Intellectual
Property Organization); Ms. Miranda Brown (former Strategic
Adviser to the Director of General, World Intellectual Property
Organization); Mr. Matthew Parish, Founder and Managing
Director, Gentium Law Group.
March 22, 2016--Hezbollah's Growing Threat Against U.S.
National Security Interests in the Middle East. Matthew Levitt,
Ph.D., Director and Former-Wexler Fellow, Stein Program on
Counterterrorism and Intelligence Washington Institute for Near
East Policy; Mr. Tony Badran, Research Fellow, Foundation for
Defense on Democracies; Daniel L. Byman, Ph.D., Professor,
Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service, Georgetown University.
April 13, 2016--Assessing President Obama's Middle East and
North Africa FY 2017 Budget Request. The Honorable Anne W.
Patterson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Paige Alexander,
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S.
Agency for International Development.
April 19, 2016--Israel Imperiled: Threats to the Jewish
State. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism,
Nonproliferation, and Trade.) Michael Rubin, Ph.D., Resident
Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Jonathan Schanzer,
Ph.D., Vice President for Research, Foundation for Defense and
Democracies; Mr. David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow,
Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Isreal Strategic
Relationship, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy;
Tamara Cofman Wittes, Ph.D., Director, Center for Middle East
Policy, Brookings Institution.
April 27, 2016--Advancing U.S. Interests: Examining the
President's FY 2017 Budget Proposal for Afghanistan and
Pakistan. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Asia and the
Pacific.) The Honorable Richard Olson, U.S. Special
representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Department of
State; Mr. Donald L. Sampler, Jr., Assistant to the
Administrator, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, U.S.
Agency for International Development.
April 28, 2016--U.S. Policy Toward Lebanon. The Honorable
Gerald M. Feierstein, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
Andrew Exum, Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Middle East Policy, U.S. Department of Defense.
May 25, 2016--Tunisia's Struggle for Stability, Security,
and Democracy. Mr. John Desrocher, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Egypt and Maghreb Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; Ms. Maria Longi, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S. Agency for
International Development.
June 15, 2016--Egypt: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S.
Policy. The Honorable Mark Green, President, International
Republican Institute; Mr. Mokhtar Awad, Research Fellow,
Program on Extremism, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security,
George Washington University.
July 14, 2016--U.S. Humanitarian Assistance to Syria:
Minimizing Risks and Improving Oversight. Mr. Thomas Melito,
Director, International Affairs and Trade, Government
Accountability Office; The Honorable Ann Calveresi Barr,
Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General, United
States Agency for International Development.
September 8, 2016--Eastern Mediterranean Energy: Challenges
and Opportunities for U.S. Regional Priorities. Mr. Amos J.
Hochstein, Special Envoy and Coordinator for International
Energy Affairs, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of
State; The Honorable Jonathan Elkind, Assistant Secretary for
International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy.
September 15, 2016--Markup. H. Res. 220, Condemning the
Government of Iran's state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i
minority and its continued violation of the International
Covenants on Human Rights.
November 30, 2016--Libya Five Years After Ghadafi. (Jointly
held with the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and
Trade.) Mr. Jonathan Winer, Special Envoy for Libya, Bureau of
Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
F. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
January 27, 2015--The Evolution of Terrorist Propaganda:
The Paris Attack and Social Media. The Honorable Mark Wallace,
Chief Executive Officer, Counter Extremism Project; Mr. J.M.
Berger, Author; Mr. Evan Kohlmann, Chief Information Officer,
Flashpoint Partners; Ms. Rebecca MacKinnon, Director, Ranking
Digital Rights, New America.
February 11, 2015--State Sponsor of Terror: The Global
Threat of Iran. Frederick W. Kagan, Ph.D., Christopher DeMuth
Chair and Director, Critical Threats Project, American
Enterprise Institute; Mr. Ilan I. Berman, Vice President,
American Foreign Policy Council; Mr. Tony Badran, Research
Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Daniel L. Byman,
Ph.D., Professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh
School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
March 17, 2015--National Security Benefits of Trade
Agreements with Asia and Europe. The Honorable Carla A. Hills,
Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Michael J. Green,
Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, Center
for Strategic and International Studies; Daniel S. Hamilton,
Ph.D., Director, Center for Transatlantic Relations, The Paul
H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns
Hopkins University.
March 25, 2015--Markup. H.R. 237, To authorize the
revocation or denial of passports and passport cards to
individuals affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations,
and for other purposes.
April 14, 2015--The Crude Oil Export Ban: Helpful or
Hurtful? The Honorable Joe Barton, United States House of
Representatives; The Honorable Michael McCaul, United States
House of Representatives; Mr. Jason Grumet, Founder and
President, Bipartisan Policy Center; Ms. Elizabeth Rosenberg,
Director, Energy, Economics, and Security Program, Center for a
New American Security; Mr. Jason Bordoff, Founding Director,
Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University; Mr.
Stephen Kretzmann, Founder and Executive Director, Oil Change
International.
April 22, 2015--Poaching and Terrorism: A National Security
Challenge. The Honorable Judith G. Garber, Acting Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International and Environmental
and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Robert
Dreher, Associate Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
U.S. Department of the Interior; The Honorable John Cruden,
Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources
Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
April 29, 2015--ISIS: Defining the Enemy. The Honorable
Robert Ford, Senior Fellow, The Middle East Institute (former
U.S. Ambassador to Syria); Walid Phares, Ph.D., Co-Secretary
General, Transatlantic Parliamentary Group on Counterterrorism;
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-Elect, National Council of
Resistance of Iran.
May 19, 2015--Trade Promotion Agencies and U.S. Foreign
Policy. Mr. Fred P. Hochberg, Chairman and President, Export-
Import Bank of the United States; The Honorable Elizabeth L.
Littlefield, President and Chief Executive Officer, Overseas
Private Investment Corporation; The Honorable Leocadia I. Zak,
Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency; General James L.
Jones, USMC, Retired, Founder, Jones Group International
(former National Security Advisor to the President of the
United States); Ms. Susan Jaime, Founder, Ferra Coffee
International; Mr. Daniel J. Ikenson, Director, Herbert A.
Stiefel Center for Trade Policy, Cato Institute; Carly
Seidewand Eppley, Vice President, Global Sales and
Administration, Resin Technology, LLC.
June 2, 2015--State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau.
Mr. Charles Johnson, Jr., Director, International Security
Issues, International Affairs and Trade, Government
Accountability Office; Mr. Justin Siberell, Deputy Coordinator
for Regional Affairs and Programs, Bureau of Counterterrorism,
U.S. Department of State.
July 16, 2015--Reviewing the U.S. China Civil Nuclear
Cooperation Agreement. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on
Asia and the Pacific.) The Honorable Thomas M. Countryman,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Security and
Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State; Lieutenant General
Frank G. Klotz, USAF, Retired, Under Secretary for Nuclear
Security, Administrator, National Nuclear Security
Administration, U.S. Department of Energy; Mr. Henry D.
Sokolski, Executive Director, The Nonproliferation Policy
Education Center; Mr. Daniel Lipman, Vice-President, Supplier
and International Programs, Nuclear Energy Institute; Ms.
Sharon Squassoni, Director and Senior Fellow, Proliferation
Prevention Program, Center for Strategic and International
Studies.
July 28, 2015--The Iran-North Korea Strategic Alliance.
(Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and
the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.) Mr. Ilan
Berman, Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council; Ms.
Claudia Rosett, Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for Defense
of Democracies; Larry Niksch, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Center
for Strategic and International Studies; Jim Walsh, Ph.D.,
Research Associate, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
September 9, 2015--Agricultural Trade with Cuba. Mr. John
Smith, Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S.
Department of the Treasury; Mr. Phil Karsting, Administrator,
Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture;
Mr. Matt Borman, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Industry
and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce.
September 29, 2015--U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts in Syria:
A Winning Strategy? General Jack Keane, USA, Retired, Chairman
of the Board, Institute for the Study of War; Mr. Thomas
Joscelyn, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies;
The Honorable Daniel Benjamin, Norman E. McCulloch Jr.
Director, John Sloan Dickey Center for International
Understanding, Dartmouth College (former Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State).
October 22, 2015--North Korea: Back on the State Sponsor of
Terrorism List? The Honorable Sung Kim, Special Representative
for North Korea Policy, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Hilary
Batjer Johnson, Deputy Coordinator for Homeland Security,
Screening, and Designations, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S.
Department of State.
October 23, 2015--Evaluating the Export-Import Bank in the
Global Economy. Ms. Diane Katz, Senior Research Fellow in
Regulatory Policy, The Institute for Economic Freedom and
Opportunity, The Heritage Foundation; Mr. T.J. Raguso,
Executive Vice President, International Division, Amegy Bank
National Association; Mr. Tyler Schroeder, Financial Analyst,
Air Tractor Inc.; Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D., Chief Operating
Officer, Lexington Institute.
November 17, 2015--Terrorist Financing: Kidnapping,
Antiquities Trafficking, and Private Donations. Mr. John
Cassara (former Special Agent, U.S. Department of the
Treasury); David Andrew Weinberg, Ph.D., Senior Fellow,
Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Mrs. Diane Foley,
Founder, James W. Foley Legacy Foundation Inc.; Michael D.
Danti, Ph.D., Academic Director of Cultural Heritage
Initiatives, The American Schools of Oriental Research.
December 1, 2015--Russian Arms Control Cheating: Violation
of the INF Treaty and the Administration's Responses One Year
Later. (Jointly held with the Committee on Armed Forces,
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.) The Honorable Brian P.
McKeon, Principle Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy,
U.S. Department of Defense; The Honorable Rose Gottemoeller,
Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security,
U.S. Department of State.
December 2, 2015--The Paris Attacks: A Strategic Shift by
ISIS? Mr. Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for
National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Daveed
Gartenstein-Ross, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense
of Democracies; Mr. Michael Weiss, Co-Author, ISIS: Inside the
Army of Terror; Mr. Thomas M. Sanderson, Director and Senior
Fellow, Transnational Threats Project, Center for Strategic and
International Studies.
December 8, 2015--Civil Nuclear Cooperation with Pakistan:
Prospects and Consequences. His Excellency Husain Haqqani,
Director for South and Central Asia, The Hudson Institute;
Daniel S. Markey, Ph.D., Senior Research Professor, School of
Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Mr.
Henry D. Sokolski, Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy
Education Center; George Perkovich, Ph.D., Vice President for
Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
February 10, 2016--After San Bernandino: The Future of
ISIS-Inspired Attacks. General Jack Keane, USA, Retired,
Chairman of the Board, Institute for the Study of War; The
Honorable Alberto M. Fernandez, Vice President, Middle East
Media Research Institute; Christopher Swift, Ph.D., Adjunct
Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University.
February 24, 2016--Boko Haram: The Islamist Insurgency in
West Africa. Ms. Jennifer G. Cooke, Director, Africa Program,
Center for International and Strategic Studies; Mr. Jacob Zenn,
Fellow, African and Eurasian Affairs, The Jamestown Foundation;
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Foundation for
Defense of Democracies; Ms. Alice Hunt Friend, Adjunct Senior
Fellow, Center for New American Security.
March 15, 2016--Trade with Cuba: Growth and Opportunities.
C. Parr Rosson, Ph.D., Head of Department, Agricultural
Economics, Texas A&M University; Mr. Ray Stoesser, President,
Texas Rice Council; Mr. Jason Marczak, Director, Latin American
Growth Initiative, Atlantic Council; Mr. Mauricio Claver-
Carone, Executive Director, Cuba Democracy Advocates; Richard
E. Feinberg, Ph.D., Professor, School of Global Policy and
Strategy, University of California, San Diego.
April 19, 2016--Israel Imperiled: Threats to the Jewish
State. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Middle East
and North Africa.) Michael Rubin, Ph.D., Resident Scholar,
American Enterprise Institute; Jonathan Schanzer, Ph.D., Vice
President for Research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
May 17, 2016--U.S. Department of State Counterterrorism
Bureau: FY 2017 Budget. Mr. Justin Siberell, Acting Coordinator
for Counterterrorism, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S.
Department of State.
May 24, 2016--The U.S.-Saudi Arabia Counterterrorism
Relationship. The Honorable Tim Roemer, Ph.D., Former 9/11
Commissioner; Mr. Simon Henderson, Director, Gulf and Energy
Policy Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy;
Ms. Karen Elliot House, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs; Daniel L. Byman, Ph.D.,
Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University.
June 9, 2016--Stopping the Money Flow: The War on Terror
Finance. (Jointly held with the Committee on Armed Services'
Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.) The
Honorable Daniel Glaser, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist
Financing, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Mr. Andrew Keller,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counter Threat Finance and
Sanctions, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Ms. Theresa Whelan, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict, U.S.
Department of Defense; Mr. William Woody, Chief of Law
Enforcement, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
July 12, 2016--Pakistan: Friend or Foe in the Fight Against
Terrorism? (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Asia and the
Pacific.) The Honorable Zalmay Khalilzad, Conselor, Center for
Strategic and International Studies; Mr. Bill Roggio, Senior
Editor, Long War Journal, Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies; Tricia Bacon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, American
University.
September 27, 2016--Markup. H.R. 3693, To require a report
on whether Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a
terrorist entity, and for other purposes.
September 27, 2016--Libya's Terrorist Descent: Causes and
Solutions. Federica Saini Fasanotti, Ph.D., Non-Resident
Fellow, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence,
Foreign Policy Program, The Brookings Institution; Mr. Thomas
Joscelyn, Senior Editor, Long War Journal, Foundation for
Defense of Democracies; Mr. Benjamin Fishman, Former Director
for North Africa, National Security Council.
November 30, 2016--Libya Five Years After Ghadafi. (Jointly
held with Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.)
Mr. Jonathan Winer, Special Envoy for Libya, Bureau of Near
Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
G. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
February 3, 2015--The Strategic Importance of the Western
Hemisphere: Defining U.S. Interests in the Region. Shannon K.
O'Neil, Ph.D., Senior Fellow for Latin American Studies,
Council on Foreign Relations; Ms. Bonnie Glick, Senior Vice
President, GlobalConnect Division, Meridan International
Center; Evan Ellis, Ph.D., Author; Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice
President, Council of the Americas and Americas Society.
February 26, 2015--The President's New Cuba Policy and U.S.
National Security. Mr. Chris Simmons, Editor, Cuba
Confidential; Mr. Fernando Menendez, Senior Fellow, Center for
a Secure Free Society; Jose Azel, Ph.D., Senior Research
Associate, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies,
University of Miami; the Honorable Dennis K. Hays, Director,
The Emergence Group.
March 18, 2015--Iran and Hezbollah in the Western
Hemisphere. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on the Middle
East and North Africa.) Mr. Joseph Humire, Author; Mr. Dardo
Lopez-Dolz (former Vice Minister of Interior of Peru); Mr.
Scott Modell, Senior Advisor, The Rapidan Group; Mr. Michael
Shifter, President, Inter-American Dialogue.
March 24, 2015--Oversight of the State Department and
Agency for International Development Funding Priorities for the
Western Hemisphere. 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.
April 30, 2015--Migration Crisis: Oversight of the
Administration's Proposed $1 Billion Request for Central
America. Mr. Scott Hamilton, Central America Director, 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; Ms. Paloma Adams-Allen, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Latin America and the Caribbean Bureau, U.S.
Agency for International Development; The Honorable Alan D.
Bersin, Assistant Secretary and Chief Diplomatic Officer,
Office of Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security;
Lieutenant General Kenneth E. Tovo, USA, Military Deputy
Commander, U.S. Southern Command, U.S. Department of Defense.
May 14, 2015--Energy Revolution in the Western Hemisphere:
Opportunities and Challenges for the U.S. James H. Knapp,
Ph.D., Professor, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
University of South Carolina; Mr. Kevin Book, Managing
Director, Clearview Energy Partners; Mr. Jamie Webster, Senior
Director, IHS Energy; Mr. Jeremy Martin, Energy Program,
Institute of the Americas.
June 18, 2015--The Future of Property Rights in Cuba. Mr.
Mauricio Tamargo (former Chairman of the Foreign Claims
Settlement Commission); Mr. David Bradley (former Chief Counsel
of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission); Javier Garcia-
Bengochea, M.D., Certified Claimant; Ms. Carolyn Chester Lamb,
Certified Claimant; Ms. Amy Rosoff, Heir of Certified Claimant;
Ms. Anna-Lee Stangl, Senior Advocacy Officer for the Americas,
Christian Solidarity Worldwide-UK.
June 24, 2015--Colombia: Peace with the FARC? The Honorable
Bernard Aronson, Special Envoy to the Colombian Peace Process,
U.S. Department of State; Mr. Alex Lee, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for South America and Cuba, Bureau of Western
Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
July 23, 2015--Pursuing North American Energy Independence:
Mexico's Energy Reforms. The Honorable Carlos Pascual, Senior
Vice President, IHS Inc. (former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico);
Thomas Tunstall, Ph.D., Research Director, The University of
Texas at San Antonio Institute for Economic Development; Tony
Payan, Ph.D., Director, Mexico Center, Baker Institute for
Public Policy, Rice University; Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice
President, Council of the Americas and Americas Society.
July 29, 2015--Threats to Press Freedom in the Americas.
Carlos Ponce, Ph.D., Director of the Latin America Program,
Freedom House; Mr. Carlos Lauria, Senior Americas Program
Coordinator, Committee to Protect Journalists; Mr. Claudio
Paolillo, Chairman, Freedom of the Press and Information
Committee, Inter-American Press Association; Mr.Nicolas Perez
Lapentti, Co-Director, El Universo in Ecuador; Mr. Alfredo
Corchado, Mexico Bureau Chief, The Dallas Morning News.
September 10, 2015--China's Advance in Latin America and
the Caribbean. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee on Asia and
the Pacific.) Evan Ellis, Ph.D., Author, China on the Ground in
Latin America; Enrique Dussel Peters, Ph.D., Director, Center
for Chinese-Mexican Studies, School of Economics, National
Autonomous University of Mexico; Ms. Serena Joseph-Harris,
Chief Executive Officer, Sirius International (Caribbean)
Defense Contractors Ltd. (former High Commissioner of the
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago); Ms. Margaret Myers, Program
Director, China and Latin America, Inter-American Dialogue.
September 17, 2015--Challenges to Religious Freedom in the
Americas. Ms. Anna-Lee Stangl, Senior Advocacy Officer for the
Americas, Christian Solidarity Worldwide-UK; Mr. Ricardo Luna,
Global Vice President, Confraternidad Evangelica Latina; Mr.
Dennis P. Petri, Research Coordinator for Latin America,
Associate Director, World Watch Research, Open Doors
International; Mr. Richard Coll, Foreign Policy Advisor for
Latin America and Global Trade, Office of International Justice
and Peace, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
October 22, 2015--Russian Engagement in the Western
Hemisphere. Mr. Doug Farah, President, IBI Consultants;
Vladimir Rouvinski, Ph.D., Director of the CIES
Interdisciplinary Research Center, Universidad Icesi in
Colombia; Constantino Urcuyo, Ph.D., Academic Director, Centro
de Investigacion y Adiestramiento Politico Administrativo in
Costa Rica; Diana Villiers Negroponte, Ph.D., Public Policy
Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
November 6, 2015--Deplorable Human Rights Violations in
Cuba and Venezuela. Mr. Antonio Rodiles, Cuban Dissident; Ms.
Sylvia Iriondo, President, Mothers and Women Against Repression
(M.A.R. por Cuba); the Reverend Mario Felix Lleonart Barroso,
Pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Villa Clara, Cuba; Ms.
Adriana Lopez Vermut, Sister of Leopoldo Lopez; Ms. Ibeyise
Pacheco, Venezuelan Journalist and Writer; Mr. Carlos Vecchio
Demari, Lawyer, National Political Coordinator, Voluntad
Poular.
November 17, 2015--Charting the Arctic: Security, Economic,
and Resource Opportunities. (Jointly held with the Subcommittee
on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.) Admiral Robert Papp,
Jr., USCG, Retired, U.S. Special Representative for the Arctic,
U.S. Department of State; Rear Admiral Timothy C. Gallaudet,
USN, Oceanographer and Navigator, U.S. Department of Defense;
Vice Admiral Charles D. Michel, USCG, Vice Commandant, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
December 9, 2015--Year in Review: U.S. Policy Toward a
Changing Western Hemisphere. The Honorable Roger Noriega,
Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (former
Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S.
Department of State); The Honorable Mary Beth Long, Founder and
Chief Executive Officer, Metis Solutions (former Assistant
Secretary for International Security Affairs, U.S. Department
of Defense); Cynthia J. Arnson, Ph.D., Director, Latin American
Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
February 10, 2016--The Global Zika Epidemic. (Jointly held
with the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human
Rights, and International Organizations.) Tom Frieden, M.D.,
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services; 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; 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.
March 22, 2016--Potential Terrorist Threats: Border
Security Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr.
Juan Gonzalez, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western
Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable
Alan D. Bersin, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs
and Chief Diplomatic Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland
Security; Mr. Lev Kubiak, Assistant Director for International
Operations U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
April 27, 2016--Examining FY 2017 Funding Priorities in the
Western Hemisphere. Mr. Francisco Palmieri, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Luis Arreaga, Ph.D., Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement 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.
June 9, 2016--The Impact of Low Oil Prices on Energy
Security in the Americas. Mr. Amos Hochstein, Special Envoy and
Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, Bureau of Energy
Resources, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Melanie Kenderdine,
Director, Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, U.S.
Department of Energy; The Honorable Adam Sieminski,
Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration.
June 22, 2016--Venezuela's Crisis: Implications for the
Region. The Honorable Michael Kozak, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S.
Department of State; Ms. Annie Pforzheimer, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Mr. John Smith, Acting Director, Office of
Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Mr.
John Andersen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western
Hemisphere, U.S. Department of Commerce.
July 14, 2016--The Strategic Importance of Building a
Stronger U.S.-Caribbean Partnership. Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice
President, Council of the Americas and Americas Society; Ms.
Sally Yearwood, Executive Director, Caribbean-Central American
Action; His Excellency Richard Bernal, Pro-Vice Chancellor for
Global Affairs, University of the West Indies in Jamaica.
September 15, 2016--Nicaragua's Democratic Collapse. Mr.
Juan Gonzalez, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western
Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable
Marcela Escobari, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin
America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
September 15, 2016--Markup. H. Res. 851, Expressing
profound concern about the ongoing political, economic, social
and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, urging the release of
political prisoners, and calling for respect of constitutional
and democratic processes; and H.R. 5708, Nicaragua Investment
Conditionality Act (NICA) of 2016, To oppose loans at
international financial institutions for the Government of
Nicaragua unless the Government of Nicaragua is taking
effective steps to hold free, fair, and transparent elections,
and for other purposes.
H. Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Mismanagement, and Oversight Hearings
(Government Accountability Office (GAO), Inspector General,
or other reports, if any, related to a hearing are indicated in
brackets at the end of a listing.)
February 3, 2015--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
The Strategic Importance of the Western Hemisphere: Defining
U.S. Interests in the Region. Shannon K. O'Neil, Ph.D., Senior
Fellow for Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign
Relations; Ms. Bonnie Glick, Senior Vice President,
GlobalConnect Division, Meridan International Center; Evan
Ellis, Ph.D., Author; Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice President,
Council of the Americas and Americas Society.
February 25, 2015--Full Committee: Advancing U.S. Interests
in a Troubled World: The FY 2016 Foreign Affairs Budget. The
Honorable John F. Kerry, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of
State.
March 17, 2015--Full Committee: The FY 2016 Budget Request:
Assessing U.S. Foreign Assistance Effectiveness. The Honorable
Alfonso E. Lenhardt, Acting Administrator, U.S. Agency for
International Development; The Honorable Dana J. Hyde, Chief
Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation.
March 18, 2015--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: Does the President's FY 2016 Budget Request Address the
Crises in the Middle East and North Africa? The Honorable Anne
W. Patterson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern
Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Paige
Alexander, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East,
U.S. Agency for International Development.
March 24, 2015--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: The
U.S. Rebalance in South Asia: Foreign Aid and Development
Priorities. The Honorable Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan Stivers, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
March 24, 2015--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
Oversight of the State Department and Agency for International
Development Funding Priorities for the Western Hemisphere. 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.
April 15, 2015--Full Committee: Confronting Russia's
Weaponization of Information. Mr. Peter Pomerantsev, Senior
Fellow, The Legatum Institute; Ms. Helle C. Dale, Senior Fellow
for Public Diplomacy, The Heritage Foundation; Ms. Elizabeth
Wahl, Former RT Anchor, Freelance Journalist/Public Speaker.
[GAO-13-172 (January 2013); Department of State Office of
Inspector General Management Alert MA-15-01 (May 2015)]
April 23, 2015--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: The
U.S. Rebalance in East Asia: Budget Priorities for FY 2016. The
Honorable Daniel R. Russel, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State; The
Honorable Jonathan Stivers, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development.
April 29, 2015--Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and
Emerging Threats: Progress and Challenges in the Western
Balkans. Mr. Hoyt Brian Yee, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms.
Susan Fritz, Acting Assistant Administrator, Europe and Eurasia
Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr. Ivan
Vejvoda, Senior Vice President, Programs, German Marshall Fund
of the United States; The Honorable Joseph J. DioGuardi,
President, Albanian American Civic League (former Member of
Congress).
April 30, 2015--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
Migration Crisis: Oversight of the Administration's Proposed $1
Billion Request for Central America. Mr. Scott Hamilton,
Central America Director, 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; Ms. Paloma
Adams-Allen, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Latin America and
the Caribbean Bureau, U.S. Agency for International
Development; The Honorable Alan D. Bersin, Assistant Secretary
and Chief Diplomatic Officer, Office of Policy, U.S. Department
of Homeland Security; Lieutenant General Kenneth E. Tovo, USA,
Military Deputy Commander, U.S. Southern Command, U.S.
Department of Defense.
May 19, 2015--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,
and Trade: Trade Promotion Agencies and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Mr. Fred P. Hochberg, Chairman and President, Export-Import
Bank of the United States; The Honorable Elizabeth L.
Littlefield, President and Chief Executive Officer, Overseas
Private Investment Corporation; The Honorable Leocadia I. Zak,
Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency; General James L.
Jones, USMC, Retired, Founder, Jones Group International
(former National Security Advisor to the President of the
United States); Ms. Susan Jaime, Founder, Ferra Coffee
International; Mr. Daniel J. Ikenson, Director, Herbert A.
Stiefel Center for Trade Policy, Cato Institute; Carly
Seidewand Eppley, Vice President, Global Sales and
Administration, Resin Technology, LLC.
May 20, 2015--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: Everest
Trembled: Lessons Learned from the Nepal Earthquake Response.
The Honorable Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
The Honorable Jonathan Stivers, Assistant Administrator, Bureau
for Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr. Thomas
H. Staal, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy,
Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for
International Development; Ms. Anne A. Witkowsky, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian
Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense.
May 20, 2015--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: Egypt Two Years After Morsi (Part I). Eric Trager,
Ph.D., Esther K. Wagner Fellow, The Washington Institute for
Near East Policy; Mr. Samuel Tadros, Senior Fellow, Hudson
Institute; Nancy Okail, Ph.D., Executive Director, Tahrir
Institute for Middle East Policy.
June 2, 2015--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,
and Trade: State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau. Mr.
Charles Johnson, Jr., Director, International Security Issues,
International Affairs and Trade, Government Accountability
Office; Mr. Justin Siberell, Deputy Coordinator for Regional
Affairs and Programs, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S.
Department of State [GAO-15-655T (June 2, 2015)].
June 11, 2015--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific:
Retreat or Revival: A Status Report on Democracy in Asia. The
Honorable Tom Malinowski, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State;
The Honorable Jonathan Stivers, Assistant Administrator, Bureau
for Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development; The
Honorable Scot Marciel, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; Sophie Richardson, Ph.D., China Director, Human Rights
Watch; Ms. Kelley Currie, Senior Fellow, Project 2049
Institute; Mr. Murray Hiebert, Deputy Director and Senior
Fellow, Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies, Center for
Strategic and International Studies; Mr. Peter M. Manikas,
Senior Associate and Regional Director for Asia Programs, The
National Democratic Institute.
June 16, 2015--Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and
Emerging Threats: Reviewing the Administration's FY 2016 Budget
Request for Europe and Eurasia. Ms. Alina Romanowski,
Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Bureau of
European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr.
Daniel Rosenblum, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia,
Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; The Honorable Jonathan Stivers, Assistant Administrator,
Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development; Ms.
Susan Fritz, Acting Assistant Administrator, Europe and Eurasia
Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development.
June 17, 2015--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: The Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act:
State Department's Non-Compliance. Mr. Thomas Melito, Director,
International Affairs and Trade, Government Accountability
Office [GAO-15-703T (June 17, 2015)].
July 16, 2015--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,
and Trade and Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: Reviewing
the U.S. China Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. The
Honorable Thomas M. Countryman, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of
State; Lieutenant General Frank G. Klotz, USAF, Retired, Under
Secretary for Nuclear Security, Administrator, National Nuclear
Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy; Mr. Henry
D. Sokolski, Executive Director, The Nonproliferation Policy
Education Center; Mr. Daniel Lipman, Vice-President, Supplier
and International Programs, Nuclear Energy Institute; Ms.
Sharon Squassoni, Director and Senior Fellow, Proliferation
Prevention Program, Center for Strategic and International
Studies.
July 16, 2015--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: The
Goldman Act to Return Abducted American Children: Ensuring
Accurate Numbers and Administration Action. The Honorable Susan
S. Jacobs, Special Advisor for Children's Issues, Bureau of
Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Kelly
Rutherford, Co-Founder, Children's Justice Campaign; Samina
Rahman, M.D. (mother of child abducted to India); Ms. Diane
McGee (mother of children abducted to Japan); Mr. Randy
Collins, Managing Director, Bring Abducted Children Home
(father of child abducted to Japan); Ms. Patricia Apy, Partner,
Paras, Apy & Reiss, P.C.
July 22, 2015--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: Promoting U.S. Commerce in the Middle East and North
Africa. Ms. Elizabeth Richard, Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs; Mr. Scott Nathan, Special
Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, Bureau of
Economic and Business Affairs.
October 7, 2015--Full Committee: Reforming Food Aid:
Desperate Need to Do Better. The Honorable Dan Glickman, Vice
President and Executive Director, Aspen Institute Congressional
Program (former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture); The
Honorable Rajiv Shah, Senior Advisor, Chicago Council on Global
Affairs (former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International
Development); Christopher B. Barrett, Ph.D., David J. Nolan
Director, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor, Charles H.
Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell
University; The Reverend David Beckmann, President, Bread for
the World [GAO-15-666 (August 2015); GAO-09-570 (May 2009)].
October 21, 2015--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific:
Burma's Challenge: Democracy, Human Rights, Peace, and the
Plight of the Rohingya. The Honorable Daniel R. Russel,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan Stivers,
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for
International Development; The Honorable Tom Andrews,
President, United to End Genocide; Ms. Jennifer Quigley,
President, U.S. Campaign for Burma.
November 4, 2015--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Demanding
Accountability: Evaluating the 2015 ``Trafficking in Persons
Report.'' Kari Johnstone, Ph.D., Principal Deputy Director,
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S.
Department of State; Mr. James Carouso, Acting Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Mr. Alex Lee, Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
The Honorable Mark Lagon, President, Freedom House (former
Ambassador-at-Large for Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department
of State).
November 17, 2015--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
and Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats:
Charting the Arctic: Security, Economic, and Resource
Opportunities. Admiral Robert Papp, Jr., USCG, Retired, U.S.
Special Representative for the Arctic, U.S. Department of
State; Rear Admiral Timothy C. Gallaudet, USN, Oceanographer
and Navigator, U.S. Department of Defense; Vice Admiral Charles
D. Michel, USCG, Vice Commandant, U.S. Department of Homeland
Security.
November 19, 2015--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: The
Goldman Act to Return Abducted American Children: Ensuring
Administration Action. The Honorable Michele Thoren Bond,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Mr. David Goldman, Co-Founder and
Director, Bring Sean Home Foundation (father of Child Abducted
to Brazil); Captain Paul Toland, USN, Co-Founder and National
Director, Bring Abducted Children Home (father of Child
Abducted to Japan).
December 2, 2015--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: Assessing the President's Strategy in Afghanistan.
Frederick W. Kagan, Ph.D., Christopher DeMuth Chair and
Director, Critical Threats Project, American Enterprise
Institute; Mr. David. S. Sedney, Senior Associate, Center for
Strategic and International Studies; Andrew Wilder, Ph.D., Vice
President, Asia Programs, United States Institute of Peace.
January 12, 2016--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific:
Human Rights in China: The 2015 Annual Report of the
Congressional-Executive Commission on China. The Honorable
Christopher H. Smith, Chairman, Congressional-Executive
Commission on China; The Honorable Timothy J. Walz, Ranking
House Member, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
February 10, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations and
Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere: The Global Zika
Epidemic. Tom Frieden, M.D., Director, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services; 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; The
Honorable Ariel Pablos-Mendez, M.D., Assistant Administrator,
Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
February 11, 2016--Full Committee: Iran Nuclear Oversight:
Implementation and Its Consequences. The Honorable Stephen D.
Mull, Lead Coordinator for Iran Nuclear Implementation, U.S.
Department of State; Mr. John Smith, Acting Director, Office of
Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
February 11, 2016--Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa: Jordan: A Key U.S. Partner. The Honorable Gerald
M. Feierstein, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Paige
Alexander, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East,
U.S. Agency for International Development; Ms. Fatema Z. Sumar,
Regional Deputy Vice President, Europe, Asia, the Pacific and
Latin America, Department of Compact Operations, Millennium
Challenge Corporation.
February 24, 2016--Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global
Human Rights, and International Organizations, and Subcommittee
on Asia and the Pacific: Establishing Accountability at the
World Intellectual Property Organization: Illicit Technology
Transfers, Whistleblowing, and Reform. Mr. James Pooley,
Attorney at Law (former Deputy Director for Innovation and
Technology, World Intellectual Property Organization); Ms.
Miranda Brown (former Strategic Adviser to the Director of
General, World Intellectual Property Organization); Mr. Matthew
Parish, Founder and Managing Director, Gentium Law Group.
February 25, 2015--Full Committee: Strengthening U.S.
Leadership in a Turbulent World: The FY 2017 Foreign Affairs
Budget. The Honorable John F. Kerry, Secretary of State, U.S.
Department of State.
March 15, 2016--Full Committee: Review of the FY 2017
Foreign Assistance Budget: Aligning Interests, Ensuring
Effectiveness and Transparency. The Honorable Gayle Smith,
Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; The
Honorable Dana J. Hyde, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium
Challenge Corporation [USAID Office of Inspector General Audit
Report No. G-391-14-003-P (March 21, 2014)].
March 22, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Get It
Right This Time: A Victims-Centered Trafficking in Persons
Report. The Honorable Mark P. Lagon, President, Freedom House;
Mr. Matthew Smith, Executive Director, Fortify Rights; Ms.
Jinhye Jo, President, NKinUSA; Ms. Maria Werlau, President,
Free Society Project.
March 22, 2016--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
Potential Terrorist Threats: Border Security Challenges in
Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr. Juan Gonzalez, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Alan D. Bersin, Assistant
Secretary for International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic
Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Mr. Lev Kubiak,
Assistant Director for International Operations, U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of
Homeland Security.
March 23, 2016--Full Committee: The Administration's Plan
to Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility: At What Foreign
Policy and National Security Cost? Mr. Lee Wolosky, Special
Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, U.S. Department of State; Mr.
Paul M. Lewis, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Detention Closure,
U.S. Department of Defense.
April 13, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations:
Peacekeepers: Allegations of Abuse and Absence of
Accountability at the United Nations. Mr. Brett Schaefer, Jay
Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs, Margaret
Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation; Aicha
Elbasri, Ph.D., Author, Former Spokesperson, United Nations-
African Union Mission in Darfur, United Nations; Mr. Peter
Gallo, Former Investigator, Office of Internal Oversight
Services, United Nations; Mr. Jordie Hannum, Senior Director,
Better World Campaign.
April 13, 2016--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific:
Countering Extremism and the Threat of ISIS in Southeast Asia.
Mr. W. Patrick Murphy, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
East Asia and the Pacific, U.S. Department of State; Marie
Richards, Ph.D., Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator for
Regional and Multilateral Affairs, Bureau of Counterterrorism,
U.S. Department of State; Ms. Gloria Steele, Senior Deputy
Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Asia, U.S. Agency for
International Development.
April 13, 2016--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: Assessing President Obama's Middle East and North
Africa FY 2017 Budget Request. The Honorable Anne W. Patterson,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Paige Alexander, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S. Agency for
International Development.
April 19, 2016--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: FY
2017 Budget Priorities for East Asia: Engagement, Integration,
and Democracy. The Honorable Daniel R. Russel, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan Stivers, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
April 27, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: South
Sudan's Prospects for Peace and Security. The Honorable Donald
Booth, Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, U.S. Department
of State; Mr. Bob Leavitt, Deputy Assistant Administrator,
Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance,
U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr. John
Prendergast, Founding Director, Enough Project; Mr. Matt Wells,
Program Officer, Center for Civilians in Conflict; Luka Biong
Deng Kuol, Ph.D., Global Fellow, Peace Research Institute Oslo;
Augustino Ting Mayai, Ph.D., Director of Research, The Sudd
Institute.
April 27, 2016--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
African and Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: Advancing
U.S. Interests: Examining the President's FY 2017 Budget
Proposal for Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Honorable Richard
Olson, U.S. Special representative for Afghanistan and
Pakistan, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Donald L. Sampler, Jr.,
Assistant to the Administrator, Office of Afghanistan and
Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for International Development.
April 27, 2016--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
Examining FY 2017 Funding Priorities in the Western Hemisphere.
Mr. Francisco Palmieri, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
Luis Arreaga, Ph.D., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement 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.
April 28, 2016--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: U.S. Policy Toward Lebanon. The Honorable Gerald M.
Feierstein, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Andrew Exum,
Ph.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East
Policy, U.S. Department of Defense.
May 10, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global
Human Rights, and International Organizations: Will President
Obama Prioritize the Release of Prisoners of Conscience in
Vietnam? Ms. Vu Minh Khanh, Wife of Vietnamese Prisoner of
Conscience Nguyen Van Dai.
May 11, 2016--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: FY 2017
Budget Priorities for South Asia: Recovery, Development, and
Engagement. The Honorable Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asia Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Jonathan Stivers, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
May 17, 2016--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,
and Trade: U.S. Department of State Counterterrorism Bureau: FY
2017 Budget. Mr. Justin Siberell, Acting Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, Bureau of Counterterrorism, U.S. Department
of State [GAO-16-655T (June 2, 2015); GAO-15-684 (July 2015)].
May 18, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global
Human Rights, and International Organizations: Democracy
Support Strategies in Africa. Mr. D. Bruce Wharton, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Mr. Thomas Staal, Acting Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian
Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development; Mr.
Steven Feldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State;
Mr. Rushdi Nackerdien, Regional Director for Africa,
International Foundation for Electoral Systems; Mr. Patrick
Merloe, Senior Associate and Director of Election Programs,
National Democratic Institute; Mr. John Tomaszewski, Acting
Regional Director for Africa, International Republican
Institute; Mr. Nii Akuetteh, Executive Director, The African
Immigrant Caucus.
May 25, 2016--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: Tunisia's Struggle for Stability, Security, and
Democracy. Mr. John Desrocher, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Egypt and Maghreb Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Ms. Maria Longi, Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East, U.S. Agency for
International Development.
May 25, 2016--Full Committee: Iran Nuclear Deal Oversight:
Implementation and Its Consequences (Part II). The Honorable
Stephen D. Mull, Lead Coordinator for Iran Nuclear
Implementation, U.S. Department of State; The Honorable Thomas
M. Countryman, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International
Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State; Mr.
Adam J. Szubin, Acting Under Secretary, Office of Terrorism and
Financial Intelligence, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
June 9, 2016--Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation,
and Trade and the Committee on Armed Services' Subcommittee on
Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Stopping the Money Flow: The
War on Terror Finance. The Honorable Daniel Glaser, Assistant
Secretary for Terrorist Financing, U.S. Department of the
Treasury; Mr. Andrew Keller, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions, Bureau of Economic and
Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Theresa Whelan,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Operations/Low Intensity
Conflict, U.S. Department of Defense; Mr. William Woody, Chief
of Law Enforcement, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
June 9, 2016--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere: The
Impact of Low Oil Prices on Energy Security in the Americas.
Mr. Amos Hochstein, Special Envoy and Coordinator for
International Energy Affairs, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S.
Department of State; Ms. Melanie Kenderdine, Director, Office
of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, U.S. Department of
Energy; The Honorable Adam Sieminski, Administrator, U.S.
Energy Information Administration.
June 9, 2016--Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging
Threats: Examining the President's FY 2017 Budget Proposal for
Europe and Eurasia. Ms. Alina Romanowski, Coordinator of U.S.
Assistance to Europe and Eurasia, Bureau of European and
Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Daniel
Rosenblum, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia, Bureau
of South and Central Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
The Honorable Thomas Melia, Assistant Administrator, Europe and
Eurasia Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development; Ms.
Ann Marie Yastishock, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau
for Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development.
June 9, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global
Human Rights, and International Organizations: Leveraging U.S.
Funds: The Stunning Global Impact of Nutrition and Supplements
During the First 1,000 Days. Beth Dunford, Ph.D., Assistant to
the Administrator, Bureau for Food Security, U.S. Agency for
International Development; Mr. Ajay Markanday, Director,
Liaison Office for North America, Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations.
June 16, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: The
Global Religious Freedom Crisis and Its Challenge to U.S.
Foreign Policy. The Honorable David N. Saperstein, Ambassador-
at-Large for International Religious Freedom, U.S. Department
of State; Robert P. George, Ph.D., McCormick Professor of
Jurisprudence, Princeton University, Former Chairman, U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom; M. Zuhdi Jasser,
M.D., President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Former
Vice-Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
June 22, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: The
President's Visit to Vietnam: A Missed Opportunity to Advance
Human Rights. Pastor Rmah Loan, Former Head, Southern
Evangelical Church of Vietnam--Dak Nong Province; Ms. Katie
Duong, Overseas Representative, Popular Bloc of Cao Dai
Religion; Nguyen Dinh Thang, Ph.D., President and Chief
Executive Officer, Boat People SOS; Mr. T. Kumar, Director of
International Advocacy, Amnesty International.
June 22, 2016--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
Venezuela's Crisis: Implications for the Region. The Honorable
Michael Kozak, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Annie
Pforzheimer, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Mr. John
Smith, Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S.
Department of the Treasury; Mr. John Andersen, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
June 23, 2016--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: U.S.
Policy in the Pacific: The Struggle to Maintain Influence. Mr.
Matthew J. Matthews, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Australia,
New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, Senior Official for APEC,
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of
State; Ms. Gloria Steele, Senior Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Asia, U.S. Agency for International
Development.
July 7, 2016--Full Committee: Demanding Accountability: The
Administration's Reckless Release of Terrorists from
Guantanamo. Mr. Lee Wolosky, Special Envoy for Guantanamo
Closure, U.S. Department of State; Mr. Paul M. Lewis, Special
Envoy for Guantanamo Detention Closure, U.S. Department of
Defense.
July 12, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations:
Accountability Over Politics: Scrutinizing the Trafficking in
Persons Report. The Honorable Susan Coppedge, Ambassador-at-
Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S.
Department of State; Mr. David Abramowitz, Managing Director,
Humanity United Action.
July 13, 2016--Full Committee: Countering the Virtual
Caliphate: The State Department's Performance. The Honorable
Richard Stengel, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and
Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
July 14, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Hope
Deferred: Securing Enforcement of the Goldman Act to Return
Abducted American Children. Ms. Karen Christensen, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; Chris Brann, M.D., Father of Child
Abducted to Brazil; Ms. Ruchika Abbim, Mother of Child Abducted
to India; Mr. James Cook, Father of Children Abducted to Japan;
Ms. Edeanna Barbirou, Mother of Child Abducted to Tunisia.
July 14, 2016--Subcommittee on the Middle East and North
Africa: U.S. Humanitarian Assistance to Syria: Minimizing Risks
and Improving Oversight. Mr. Thomas Melito, Director,
International Affairs and Trade, Government Accountability
Office; The Honorable Ann Calveresi Barr, Inspector General,
Office of the Inspector General, United States Agency for
International Development [GAO-16-808T (July 14, 2016);
Testimony of Hon. Ann Calvaresi Barr, Inspector General, USAID
(July 14, 2016)].
September 7, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: The
Growing Crisis in South Sudan. The Honorable Donald Booth,
Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, U.S. Department of
State; Mr. Brian Adeba, Associate Director of Policy, Enough
Project; The Honorable Princeton N. Lyman, Senior Advisor to
the President, U.S. Institute of Peace.
September 8, 2016--Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa: Eastern Mediterranean Energy: Challenges and
Opportunities for U.S. Regional Priorities. Mr. Amos J.
Hochstein, Special Envoy and Coordinator for International
Energy Affairs, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of
State; The Honorable Jonathan Elkind, Assistant Secretary for
International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy.
September 14, 2016--Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health,
Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Eritrea:
A Neglected Regional Threat. The Honorable Linda Thomas-
Greenfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs,
U.S. Department of State; Father Habtu Ghebre-Ab, Director of
External Relations, Canonical Eritrean Orthodox Church in
Diaspora; Khaled Beshir, Ph.D., Board Member, Awate Foundation;
Ms. Bronwyn Bruton, Deputy Director, Africa Center, Atlantic
Council.
September 15, 2016--Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:
Nicaragua's Democratic Collapse. Mr. Juan Gonzalez, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S.
Department of State; The Honorable Marcela Escobari, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S.
Agency for International Development.
September 27, 2016--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific:
The U.S.-Republic of Korea-Japan Trilateral Relationship:
Promoting Mutual Interests in Asia. The Honorable Daniel R.
Russel, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
November 30, 2016--Subcommittee on the Middle East and
North Africa: Libya Five Years After Ghadafi. Mr. Jonathan
Winer, Special Envoy for Libya, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs,
U.S. Department of State.
December 6, 2016--Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific:
Step or Stumble: The Obama Administration's Pivot to Asia. Mr.
Richard J. Ellings, Ph.D., President, The National Bureau of
Asian Research; Derek M. Scissors, Ph.D., Resident Scholar,
American Enterprise Institute; Ms. Kelley Currie, Senior
Fellow, Project 2049 Institute; Mr. Barry C. Lynn, Director,
Open Markets Program, New America.
I. Committee-Hosted Dignitary Meetings
Member Meeting of the Subcommittee on the Western
Hemisphere with Caribbean Ministers of Energy (January 13,
2015).
Member Meeting of the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and
Emerging Threats with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia,
Her Excellency Tamar Beruchashvili (February 3, 2015).
Classified Member Meeting with Special Presidential Envoy
for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, General John Allen,
USMC, Retired (January 5, 2015).
Classified Member Meeting with Intelligence Community
Representatives (March 16, 2015).
Member Meeting with Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn,
United States Army, Retired, and Lieutenant General David W.
Barno, United States Army, Retired, on Efforts to Counter ISIL
and the President's Proposed Authorization for Use of Military
Force (March 18, 2015).
Member Meeting with Korean National Assembly Delegation
(March 18, 2015).
Member Meeting with Secretary General of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, His Excellency Jens Stoltenberg (March 24,
2015).
Member Meeting with U.S. Ambassadors to Jordan, Turkey,
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates
(March 24, 2015).
Member Meeting with Secretary General of the United
Nations, His Excellency Ban Ki-moon (April 16, 2015).
Member Meeting of the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and
Emerging Threats with Iceland Foreign Affairs Committee (May
13, 2015).
Member Meeting with Retired U.S. General Officers on the
2014 Gaza War Assessment (May 13, 2015).
Member Meeting with President of the Tunisian Republic, His
Excellency Beji Caid Essebsi (May 20, 2015).
Member Meeting Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Mr.
Valentyn Nayvaichenko (June 16, 2015).
Member Meeting with 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Mr.
Kailash Satyarthi (June 17, 2015).
Member Meeting with the President of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari (July 21, 2015).
Member Meeting with Retired U.S. General Officers on Iran
Nuclear Deal (September 8, 2015).
Member Meeting of the Subcommittee on the Western
Hemisphere with President of the Chamber of Deputies, National
Congress of Chile, His Excellency Marco Antonio Nunez Lozano
(September 29, 2015).
Member Meeting with the President of the Republic of
Kosovo, His Excellency Atifete Jahjaga (September 30, 2015).
Member Meeting with the President of the Republic of Costa
Rica, His Excellency Luis Guillermo Solis (October 1, 2015).
Member Meeting with Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund, Madame Christine Lagarde (October 28, 2015).
Member Meeting with Ambassadors from the Middle East
(December 1, 2015).
Member Meeting with Defense Minister of Israel, His
Excellency Moshe Ya'alon (December 2, 2015).
Member Meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary &
Plenipotentiary of the French Republic, Gerard Araud (December
17, 2015).
Member Meeting with Ambassador James Warlick, U.S. Special
Envoy to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group (January 6, 2016).
Member Meeting with His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al-
Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (January 12, 2016).
Member Meeting of the Subcommittees on Asia and the Pacific
and Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade with Department of
Defense and Department of State Officials on the U.S. Response
to North Korea's Fourth Nuclear Test (February 2, 2016).
Member Meeting with General Jean Qahwaji, Commander of the
Lebanese Armed Forces (February 3, 2016).
Member Meeting with His Excellency Wang Yi, Foreign
Minister of the People's Republic of China (February 24, 2016).
Member Meeting of the Subcommittee on the Western
Hemisphere with His Excellency Jimmy Morales, President of the
Republic of Guatemala (February 25, 2016).
Classified Member Meeting of the Subcommittee on Asia and
the Pacific with U.S. Department of State Officials on U.S.-
Taiwan Relations (March 3, 2016).
Classified Member Meeting on Guantanamo Bay Detention
Facility (April 13, 2016).
Member Meeting with Ambassador James Warlick, U.S. Special
Envoy to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group (April 18, 2016).
Member Meeting with His Excellency Gerard Araud, French
Ambassador to the United States, and His Excellency David
O'Sullivan, European Union Ambassador to the United States (May
16, 2016).
Classified Member Meeting on North Korea's Recent Nuclear
Test (September 22, 2016).
Member Meeting with Foreign Ministers from the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Jordan and the United Arab
Emirates (September 28, 2016).
Classified Member Meeting on Mosul, Iraq (November 16,
2016).
Member's Meeting: Breakfast with President Juan Manuel
Santos, President of Colombia (November 17, 2016).
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 N. Cicilline, RI Mark Meadows, NC
Ami Bera, CA Curt Clawson, FL
Scott DesJarlais, TN
Tom Emmer, MN*
Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., NY**
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*Rep. Emmer resigned May 18, 2015.
**Rep. Donovan appointed June 2, 2015.
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
Brad Sherman, CA, Ranking Member Matt Salmon, AZ, Chairman
Ami Bera, CA Dana Rohrabacher, CA
Tulsi Gabbard, HI Steve Chabot, OH
Alan S. Lowenthal, CA Tom Marino, PA
Gerald E. Connolly, VA Jeff Duncan, SC
Grace Meng, NY Mo Brooks, AL
Scott Perry, PA
Scott DeJarlais, TN
Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats
Gregory W. Meeks, NY, Ranking Member Dana Rohrabacher, CA, Chairman
Albio Sires, NJ Ted Poe, TX
Theodore E. Deutch, FL Tom Marino, PA
William R. Keating, MA Mo Brooks, AL
Lois Frankel, FL Paul Cook, CA
Tulsi Gabbard, HI Randy K. Weber Sr., TX
Reid J. Ribble, WI
David A. Trott, MI
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 N. Cicilline, RI Darrell E. Issa, CA
Alan Grayson, FL Randy K. Weber Sr., TX
Grace Meng, NY Ron DeSantis, FL
Lois Frankel, FL Mark Meadows, NC
Brandan F. Boyle, PA Ted S. Yoho, FL
Curt Clawson, FL
David A. Trott, MI
Lee M. Zeldin, NY
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
William R. Keating, MA, Ranking Membered Poe, TX, Chairman
Brad Sherman, CA Joe Wilson, SC
Brian Higgins, NY Darell E. Issa, CA
Joaquin Castro, TX Paul Cook, CA
Robin L. Kelly, IL Scott Perry, PA
Reid J. Ribble, WI
Lee M. Zeldin, NY
Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Albio Sires, NJ, Ranking Member Jeff Duncan, SC, Chairman
Joaquin Castro, TX Christopher H. Smith, NJ
Robin L. Kelly, IL Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, FL
Gregory W. Meeks, NY Michael T. McCaul, TX
Alan Grayson, FL Matt Salmon, AZ
Alan S. Lowenthal, CA Ron DeSantis, FL
Ted S. Yoho, FL
Tom Emmer, MN*
Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., NY**
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*Rep. Emmer resigned May 18, 2015.
**Rep. Donovan appointed June 2, 2015.
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