HSFA07 · House Subcommittee

Western Hemisphere Subcommittee

Under Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Maria Elvira Salazar R-FL foreignaffairs.house.gov

House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere

Fact sheet

168 bills referred

Across 11 Congresses on file, most in the 112th at 27. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 107th to 117th

Members
14

Seated in the 119th Congress

Meetings
7

Hearings and business meetings this Congress

Members 14

Chair and ranking member first, then alphabetically. Current Congress only.

Meetings and hearings 7

Newest first. Current Congress only.

KindSubjectStatusDate
HearingConfronting the Totalitarian Ortega-Murillo RegimeRayburn House Office Building 2200 · 2 witnessesRescheduledSep 15, 2026
HearingA New Beginning for ColombiaRayburn House Office Building 2172 · 2 witnessesScheduledJul 15, 2026
HearingLatin America After the Fall of MaduroRayburn House Office Building 2172 · 1 witnessRescheduledApr 16, 2026
HearingMexico’s Relationships with the RegionRayburn House Office Building 2172 · 2 witnessesScheduledDec 17, 2025
HearingDemocracy in Peril: the Fight for Free Elections in HondurasRayburn House Office Building 2200 · 3 witnessesScheduledNov 20, 2025
HearingSpread Freedom, Not Woke Values: An American Agenda for Democracy and Human RightsRayburn House Office Building 2172 · 3 witnessesScheduledMay 8, 2025
HearingINL Should Fight Crime, Not Fight ConservativesRayburn House Office Building 2172 · 3 witnessesRescheduledMar 27, 2025

Bills referred 168

Newest activity first, from the 107th Congress on.

BillTitleReferralDate
HRES 458Remembering and commemorating the lives and work of Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, and Cleveland Lay Mission Team Member Jean Donovan, who were executed by members of the armed forces of El Salvador on December 2, 1980.Reported by109thNov 2, 2005
HCONRES 90Conveying the sympathy of Congress to the families of the young women murdered in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, and encouraging increased United States involvement in bringing an end to these crimes.Reported by109thNov 2, 2005
HCONRES 280Mourning the horrific loss of life caused by the floods and mudslides that occurred in October 2005 in Central America and Mexico and expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should do everything possible to assist the affected people and communities.Reported by109thNov 2, 2005
HCONRES 252Expressing the sense of Congress that the Government of the United States should support democracy, the rule of law, and human rights in the Republic of Nicaragua and work cooperatively with regional and international organizations to bolster Nicaraguan efforts to establish the requisite conditions for free, fair, transparent, and inclusive presidential and legislative elections in 2006.Reported by109thSep 28, 2005
HR 611Haiti Economic and Infrastructure Reconstruction ActReported by109thJun 29, 2005
HCONRES 175Acknowledging African descendants of the transatlantic slave trade in all of the Americas with an emphasis on descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean, recognizing the injustices suffered by these African descendants, and recommending that the United States and the international community work to improve the situation of Afro-descendant communities in Latin America and the Caribbean.Reported by109thJun 29, 2005
HR 953Social Investment and Economic Development Fund for the Americas Act of 2005Reported by109thJun 29, 2005
HCONRES 89Honoring the life of Sister Dorothy Stang.Discharged from109thMay 18, 2005

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Everything here is as published by Congress. Referrals run from the 107th Congress on, so a committee older than that shows fewer than it has taken. Membership, meetings and nominations are held for the 119th Congress only, which is why they are shown without a history rather than reported as none. A subcommittee's referrals are recorded against it separately from its parent's, so the two lists do not add up. Records come from Congress.gov.