United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs

The U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States House of Representatives, also known as the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives which has jurisdiction over bills and investigations related to the foreign affairs of the United States.

U.S. Representative Ed Royce of California is the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and has been so since January 2013.

From 1975 to 1978 [1] and from 1995 to 2007, it was renamed the Committee on International Relations. In January 2007 (and January 1979), it changed back to its original name. Its jurisdiction is and was the same under both names.

Members

113th Congress

Majority

Minority

Ed Royce, California, Chairman (113th) Chris Smith, New Jersey Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida, former Chairwoman (112th) Dana Rohrabacher, California Steve Chabot, Ohio Joe Wilson, South Carolina Michael McCaul, Texas Ted Poe, Texas Matt Salmon, Arizona Tom Marino, Pennsylvania Jeff Duncan, South Carolina Adam Kinzinger, Illinois Mo Brooks, Alabama Tom Cotton, Arkansas Paul Cook, California George Holding, North Carolina Randy Weber, Texas Scott Perry, Pennsylvania Steve Stockman, Texas Ron DeSantis, Florida Doug Collins, Georgia Vacancy Mark Meadows, North Carolina Ted Yoho, Florida Luke Messer, Indiana

Eliot Engel, New York, Ranking Member Eni Faleomavaega, American Samoa Brad Sherman, California Gregory Meeks, New York Albio Sires, New Jersey Gerry Connolly, Virginia Ted Deutch, Florida Brian Higgins, New York Karen Bass, California William R. Keating, Massachusetts David Cicilline, Rhode Island Alan Grayson, Florida Juan Vargas, California Brad Schneider, Illinois Joseph P. Kennedy III, Massachusetts Ami Bera, California Alan Lowenthal, California Grace Meng, New York Lois Frankel, Florida Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Joaquin Castro, Texas

Sources: H.Res. 6, H.Res. 17 (R), H.Res. 7, H.Res. 22 (D)

112th Congress

Majority

Minority

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida, Chairwoman Chris Smith, New Jersey Dan Burton, Indiana Elton Gallegly, California, Vice Chairman Dana Rohrabacher, California Donald Manzullo, Illinois Ed Royce, California Steve Chabot, Ohio Ron Paul, Texas Mike Pence, Indiana Joe Wilson, South Carolina Connie Mack, Florida Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska Michael McCaul, Texas Ted Poe, Texas Gus Bilirakis, Florida Jean Schmidt, Ohio Bill Johnson, Ohio David Rivera, Florida Mike Kelly, Pennsylvania Timothy Griffin, Arkansas Tom Marino, Pennsylvania Jeff Duncan, South Carolina Ann Marie Buerkle, New York Renee Ellmers, North Carolina Bob Turner, New York

Howard Berman, California, Ranking Member Gary Ackerman, New York Eni Faleomavaega, American Samoa Brad Sherman, California Eliot Engel, New York Gregory Meeks, New York Russ Carnahan, Missouri Albio Sires, New Jersey Gerry Connolly, Virginia Ted Deutch, Florida Ben Chandler, Kentucky Brian Higgins, New York Allyson Y. Schwartz, Pennsylvania Chris Murphy, Connecticut Frederica Wilson, Florida Karen Bass, California William R. Keating, Massachusetts David Cicilline, Rhode Island

Sources:

• Resolutions electing Republican members (H.Res. 6, H.Res. 37)
• Resolutions electing Democratic members (H.Res. 7, H.Res. 39)

Sources: H.Res. 6 (Chairs), H.Res. 7 (D), H.Res. 17 (R) and H.Res. 22 (D).

Subcommittees

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Member
Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations	Chris Smith (R-NJ)	Karen Bass (D-CA)
Asia and the Pacific	Steve Chabot (R-OH)	Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS)
Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats	Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)	William R. Keating (D-MA)
Middle East and North Africa	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)	Ted Deutch (D-FL)
Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade	Ted Poe (R-TX)	Brad Sherman (D-CA)
Western Hemisphere	Matt Salmon (R-AZ)	Albio Sires (D-NJ)

List of chairmen

Chairman	Party	Dates of Service	Home State
Jonathan Russell	Democratic-Republican	1821–1823	Massachusetts
John Forsyth	Democratic-Republican	1823–1827	Georgia
Edward Everett	National Republican	1827–1829	Massachusetts
William S. Archer	Democratic	1829–1834	Virginia
James Moore Wayne	Democratic	1834–1835	Georgia
John Young Mason	Democratic	1835	Virginia
Benjamin Chew Howard	Democratic	1835–1839	Maryland
Francis Wilkinson Pickens	Democratic	1839–1841	South Carolina
Caleb Cushing	Democratic	1841–1842	Massachusetts
John Quincy Adams	Whig	1842–1843	Massachusetts
Charles Jared Ingersoll	Democratic	1843–1847	Pennsylvania
Truman Smith	Whig	1847–1849	Connecticut
John Alexander McClernand	Democratic	1849–1851	Illinois
Thomas Henry Bayly	Democratic	1851–1855	Virginia
Alexander C. M. Pennington	Opposition	1855–1857	New Jersey
Thomas Lanier Clingman	Democratic	1857–1858	North Carolina
George Washington Hopkins	Democratic	1858–1859	Virginia
Thomas Corwin	Republican	1859–1861	Ohio
John J. Crittenden	Unionist	1861–1863	Kentucky
Henry Winter Davis	Unionist	1863–1865	Maryland
Nathaniel P. Banks	Republican	1865–1873	Massachusetts
Godlove Stein Orth	Republican	1873–1875	Indiana
Thomas Swann	Democratic	1875–1879	Maryland
Samuel S. Cox	Democratic	1879–1881	New York
Charles G. Williams	Republican	1881–1883	Wisconsin
Andrew Gregg Curtin	Democratic	1883–1885	Pennsylvania
Perry Belmont	Democratic	1885–1888	New York
James B. McCreary	Democratic	1888–1889	Kentucky
Robert R. Hitt	Republican	1889–1891	Illinois
James Henderson Blount	Democratic	1891–1893	Georgia
James B. McCreary	Democratic	1893–1895	Kentucky
Robert R. Hitt	Republican	1895–1906	Illinois
Robert G. Cousins	Republican	1907–1909	Iowa
James Breck Perkins	Republican	1909–1910	New York
David J. Foster	Republican	1910–1911	Vermont
William Sulzer	Democratic	1911–1912	New York
Henry D. Flood	Democratic	1913–1919	Virginia
Stephen G. Porter	Republican	1919–1930	Pennsylvania
Henry Wilson Temple	Republican	1930–1931	Pennsylvania
John Charles Linthicum	Democratic	1931–1932	Maryland
Sam D. McReynolds	Democratic	1932–1939	Tennessee
Sol Bloom	Democratic	1939–1947	New York
Charles A. Eaton	Republican	1947–1949	New Jersey
Sol Bloom	Democratic	1949	New York
John Kee	Democratic	1949–1951	West Virginia
James P. Richards	Democratic	1951–1953	South Carolina
Robert B. Chiperfield	Republican	1953–1955	Illinois
James P. Richards	Democratic	1955–1957	South Carolina
Thomas S. Gordon	Democratic	1957–1959	Illinois
Thomas E. Morgan	Democratic	1959–1977	Pennsylvania
Clement J. Zablocki	Democratic	1977–1983	Wisconsin
Dante Fascell	Democratic	1983–1993	Florida
Lee H. Hamilton	Democratic	1993–1995	Indiana
Benjamin A. Gilman	Republican	1995–2001	New York
Henry Hyde	Republican	2001–2007	Illinois
Tom Lantos	Democratic	2007–2008	California
Howard Berman	Democratic	2008–2011	California
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	Republican	2011–2013	Florida
Ed Royce	Republican	2013 -	California

See also

• List of current United States House of Representatives committees

External links

• U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs