Foreign Affairs Committee
U.S. House•Standing
Summary
Foreign Affairs is a standing committee of the U.S. House with 8 subcommittees and 53 members. It has 807 bills before it this session and has held 28 hearings.
Chair
Chair: Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL). Ranking Member: Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY). Online at foreignaffairs.house.gov.
Foreign Affairs has 807 bills, 118 meetings and 0 reports on the record this session.
Members
53 members sit on Foreign Affairs, 28 in the majority and 25 in the minority; Brian Mast is Chair and Gregory Meeks is Ranking Member.
Subcommittees
The committee's work is divided among 8 subcommittees.
Bills
807 bills have been referred to Foreign Affairs this session, and 800 of them are still in committee.
Nothing introduced before Foreign Affairs this session.
Meetings
Foreign Affairs has 90 meetings on the calendar.
Communications
421 executive communications, petitions and memorials have been referred to Foreign Affairs this Congress.
Lobbying
1,135 clients and 731 firms named 469 of the bills referred to Foreign Affairs in 3,461 quarterly filings under the Lobbying Disclosure Act.
Registrants filing on those bills, and the bills they named most.
The bills most often named.
History
The committee has carried 5 names since Mar 13, 1822, established by 17 House Journal 351.