HSFA00 · House Standing

Foreign Affairs Committee

foreignaffairs.house.gov

Committee on Foreign Affairs

Showing the 109th Congress (2005–2006), when this was the International Relations. Back to the 119th Congress

671 bills referred in the 109th Congress

9,558 across the 13 Congresses on file, most in the 118th at 1,154. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 107th to 119th

Members

Served in the 109th Congress

Subcommittees

Each with its own members and record

Members, 109th Congress 52

Everyone who held a seat in the 109th Congress, leaders first, with the day they joined or left when it was not with the rest.

Seat	Member	Role
R-IL	Henry J. Hyde	Chair
D-CA	Tom Lantos	Ranking Member
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff
D-WA	Adam Smith
D-CA	Barbara Lee
D-KY	Ben Chandler
D-MN	Betty McCollum
D-MA	Bill Delahunt
D-CA	Brad Sherman
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith
R-FL	Connie Mack
R-IN	Dan Burton
R-CA	Dana Rohrabacher
R-CA	Darrell Issa
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza
D-CA	Diane E. Watson
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer
R-CA	Edward R. Royce
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel
R-CA	Elton Gallegly
D-AS	Eni F. H. Faleomavaega
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks
D-CA	Howard L. Berman
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
R-SC	J. Gresham BarrettJoined Feb 2, 2005
R-IA	James A. Leach
R-AZ	Jeff Flake
R-NE	Jeff Fortenberry
R-IL	Jerry Weller
R-VA	Jo Ann Davis
R-SC	Joe Wilson
R-AR	John Boozman
R-NY	John M. McHugh
D-NY	Joseph Crowley
R-FL	Katherine Harris
R-WI	Mark Green
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul
R-IN	Mike Pence
R-NY	Peter T. King
D-NJ	Robert MenendezLeft Dec 19, 2005
D-FL	Robert Wexler
R-TX	Ron Paul
D-MO	Russ CarnahanJoined Feb 15, 2006
D-NV	Shelley Berkley
D-OH	Sherrod Brown
R-OH	Steve Chabot
R-TX	Ted Poe
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter
R-CO	Thomas G. Tancredo

Subcommittees, 109th Congress 7

Under the names they had then. Each has its own record.

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 109th Congress.

Newest activity first. In the 109th Congress.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
HRES 1095	Commemorating the one-year anniversary of the November 9, 2005, terrorist attacks in Amman, Jordan.	Discharged From	Dec 9, 2006
HCONRES 504	Calling on the League of Arab States to acknowledge the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and to step up their efforts to stop the genocide in Darfur.	Referred To	Dec 8, 2006
HR 6433	Lebanon Reconstruction and Stabilization Act of 2006	Referred To	Dec 8, 2006
HRES 1110	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should express public support for the workers' rights and protection provisions of China's "Draft Labor Contract Law" and repudiate efforts by some United States corporations and their representatives in China to diminish such rights and protection provisions.	Referred To	Dec 8, 2006
HRES 1109	Honoring Physicians for Peace for its efforts to foster peace and diplomacy throughout the world, and paying tribute to the life and achievements of its founder, Dr. Charles E. Horton, on the occasion of his death.	Referred To	Dec 8, 2006
HR 6415	Polonium Act of 2006	Referred To	Dec 7, 2006
HRES 1103	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding modern-day slavery.	Referred To	Dec 7, 2006
HR 6419	Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act of 2006	Referred To	Dec 7, 2006

The published transcripts, newest first, from GovInfo. In the 109th Congress.

Hearing	Title	Held
Serial No. 109-243	Examination of a Fundamental Human Right: the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report96 pages	Dec 21, 2006
Serial No. 109-242	North Korea's Nuclear Test: Next Steps49 pages	Nov 15, 2006
Serial No. 109-241	Hague Convention on International Adoptions: Status and the Framework for Implementation63 pages	Nov 14, 2006
Serial No. 109-239	Falun Gong: Organ Harvesting and China's Ongoing War on Human Rights39 pages	Sep 29, 2006
109-237	The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in United States Programming in Africa58 pages	Sep 28, 2006
Serial No. 109-238	Moving Forward on Haiti: How the U.S. and the International Community Can Help52 pages	Sep 28, 2006
Serial No. 109-233	Hezbollah's Global Reach84 pages	Sep 28, 2006
Serial No. 109-231	United States-Republic of Korea Alliance: an Alliance at Risk?100 pages	Sep 27, 2006

The committee's written reports, most on a bill it sent to the floor. In the 109th Congress.

Report	Title	Issued
H. Rept. 109-747	LEGISLATIVE REVIEW ACTIVITIES of the COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS	Jan 2, 2007
H. Rept. 109-706	Department of State Authorities Act of 2006On H.R. 6060	Sep 29, 2006
H. Rept. 109-689	Directing the Secretary of State to Provide to the House of Representatives Certain Documents in the Possession of the Secretary of State Relating to the Report Submitted to the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives on July 28, 2006, Pursuant to the Iran and Syria Nonproliferation ActOn H.Res. 985	Sep 27, 2006
H. Rept. 109-590	United States and India Nuclear Cooperation Promotion Act of 2006On H.R. 5682	Jul 21, 2006
H. Rept. 109-563	Millennium Challenge Reauthorization Act of 2006On H.R. 4014	Jul 13, 2006
H. Rept. 109-526	Requesting the President and Directing the Secretary of State to Provide to the House of Representatives Certain Documents in Their Possession Relating to Strategies and Plans Either Designed to Cause Regime Change in or for the Use of Military Force Against IranOn H.Res. 846	Jun 23, 2006
H. Rept. 109-462,Part 1	Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006On H.R. 4681	May 11, 2006
H. Rept. 109-417	Iran Freedom Support ActOn H.R. 282	Apr 25, 2006

Reference documents the committee published: studies, compilations of law, rules. In the 109th Congress.

Print	Title	Text
109th	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2005 Volume I	PDF · Text
109th	Committee on International Relations	PDF · Text
109th	Legislation on Foreign Relations Through 2005	PDF · Text
109th	Legislation on Foreign Relations Through 2005	PDF · Text
109th	Legislation on Foreign Relations Through 2005	PDF · Text
109th	Annual Report on International Religious Freedom 2005	PDF · Text

By Congress

The committee's record in each Congress on file. Choose one to see the page as it stood then: its members, subcommittees and record. A dash means the official source has nothing that early, not that the committee did nothing.

Congress	Members	Bills referred	Reported	Became law	Reports	Meetings	Printed hearings	Communications	Prints
119th2025–2026, sitting	59	1,033	0	3	0	32	38	729	0
118th2023–2024	58	1,154	10	1	12	46	127	751	0
117th2021–2022	53	1,023	10	9	11	47	67	678	0
116th2019–2020	48	860	5	11	5	49	122	534	0
115th2017–2018	48	716	29	22	13	53	176	799	0
114th2015–2016	45	580	26	18	6	49	242	957	0
113th2013–2014	48	517	30	11	9	35	240	—	2
112th2011–2012	46	494	12	14	9	0	193	—	1
111th2009–2010	49	666	7	8	6	—	137	—	3
110th2007–2008	54	783	23	24	23	—	233	—	6
109th2005–2006	52	671	63	17	22	—	244	—	6
108th2003–2004	51	588	51	22	20	—	0	—	5
107th2001–2002	52	473	34	23	18	—	2	—	9

Membership changes 3

Who joined, left or changed role after the committee was first filled in the 109th Congress, newest first, each with the official record.

Date	Member	Change	Record
Feb 15, 2006	Russ Carnahan D-MO	Joined	H.Res. 678
Dec 19, 2005	Robert Menendez D-NJ	Left Congress	Last recorded vote
Feb 2, 2005	J. Gresham Barrett R-SC	Joined	H.Res. 66

Support LegiList

This page is free, carries no paywall, and is built and maintained by one person. If the record here is useful to you, a few dollars keeps it going.

$1 $5 $10

Processed by Stripe in a separate window. LegiList never sees card details.

Everything here is as published by Congress. Seats run from the 107th Congress, dated by the resolutions that made them and the Congressional Record; referrals and nominations from the 107th; meetings from the 112th. A committee older than that shows less than it has done. Records come from Congress.gov, GovInfo and the House and Senate.