News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on U.S. policy in the wake of Sudan’s October 25th coup.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in advance of the first anniversary of the coup in Burma on February 1:
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to President Biden earlier this month expressing his concern regarding a lack of U.S. nominations to numerous key positions around the world while the United States faces a myriad of national security challenges.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, published an op-ed in Foreign Policy today on his philosophy regarding ambassador and State Department nominations.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business and Charles Payne on Fox News to discuss Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the Biden Administration’s mixed messages.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on CNN’s State of the Union to discuss Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and their legislative efforts to address it.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement joining the international backlash in response to a report issued by Amnesty International in which it accuses the state of Israel of the crime of apartheid:
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing entitled “Sudan's Imperiled Transition: U.S. Policy in the Wake of the October 25th Coup.”
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in advance of the first anniversary of the coup in Burma on February 1:
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined join Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning newsmaker show to discuss Kremlin aggression against Ukraine and the latest on his effort for Congress to pass comprehensive, bipartisan legislation that would impose crushing sanctions on Vladimir Putin and the Russian economy in the event of a re-invasion of Ukraine. Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) also joined the conversation.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
Following a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Chuck Todd on MSNBC’s Meet the Press Daily to provide an update on his effort for Congress to impose crushing and mandatory sanctions on Russia in the event Putin further invades Ukraine.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today was joined by 14 of his Senate colleagues in writing to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to express concern over reports of high denial rates for Afghans seeking humanitarian parole into the United States in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover and the use of an untenably high standard of proof to determine eligibility for the more than 35,000 Afghans who applied.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
Today, Rep. Gregory Meeks, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Carolyn B.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) and Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) and Steve Chabot (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, released the following joint statement on the one-year anniversary of the Burma coup:
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
Today, on the one-year anniversary of the military coup in Burma, Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), Ami Bera. M.D. (D-CA), Steven Chabot (R-OH), Andy Levin (D-MI), and Claudia Tenney (R-NY) introduced a bipartisan resolution recognizing the anniversary of the coup and condemning the Burmese military for perpetrating gross violations of human rights against the Burmese people.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
As the one-year anniversary of the February 1, 2021 military coup against democratically-elected leadership in Burma approaches, Congressmen Gregory Meeks (NY-05), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Steve Chabot (OH-01), Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, and Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Senate East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee, and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led their colleagues calling for the United States to take action regarding Burma’s deteriorating humanitarian and human rights situation.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the schedule for the month of January.
By Press release submission | Feb 3, 2022
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) together with Representatives Albio Sires (D-NJ), Chair of the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration and International Economic Policy Subcommittee, Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Chair of the International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact Subcommittee, and Norma Torres (D-CA), today sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the Administration to strengthen the U.S.-Honduras relationship, advance our shared interests, and help promote a sense of hope among the Honduran population that a brighter future is possible.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
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By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, departed for a congressional delegation to Brussels, Belgium and Kyiv, Ukraine.
