HSFA07 · House Subcommittee

Western Hemisphere Subcommittee

Under Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Maria Elvira Salazar R-FL Ranking Member Joaquin Castro D-TX foreignaffairs.house.gov

House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere

Fact sheet Spreadsheet

0 bills referred in the 119th Congress so far

168 across the 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

Seated in the 119th Congress

Meetings

Hearings and business meetings in the 119th Congress

Members 14

Chair and ranking member first, then alphabetically. Today's official roster.

Seat	Member	Role
R-FL	Maria Elvira Salazar	Chair
D-TX	Joaquin Castro	Ranking Member
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith
R-FL	Cory Mills
D-NV	Dina Titus
D-AZ	Greg Stanton
D-IL	Jonathan L. Jackson
R-NY	Michael Lawler
R-FL	Randy Fine
R-PA	Ryan Mackenzie
D-CA	Sara Jacobs
R-SC	Sheri Biggs
D-CA	Sydney Kamlager-Dove
D-MO	Wesley Bell

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. Every Congress on file.

Newest activity first. From the 107th Congress on.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
HR 8940	Protecting our Border, Protecting our Water Act	Referred To117th	Sep 21, 2022
HRES 1335	Urging the Government of Brazil to ensure that the October 2022 elections are conducted in a free, fair, credible, transparent, and peaceful manner that enables all citizens of Brazil to exercise the right to vote.	Referred To117th	Sep 9, 2022
HR 8711	United States-Ecuador Partnership Act of 2022	Referred To117th	Aug 12, 2022
HRES 1304	Commending the bravery, courage, and resolve of the human rights and pro-democracy activists in Cuba one year after the historic march led by such activists through the streets of Cuba to exercise the fundamental right to peacefully assemble and speak out against the human rights atrocities committed by the brutal, totalitarian, and illegitimate Communist regime in Cuba.	Referred To117th	Jul 29, 2022
HRES 1195	Reaffirming the importance of the United States to promote the safety, health, and well-being of refugees and displaced persons.	Referred To117th	Jun 21, 2022
HR 6097	Indigenous Peoples Exchange and Economic Cooperation Act	Referred To117th	Feb 22, 2022
HRES 858	Recognizing the week of December 26, 2021, as the "Week of the Quincentennial of the Fight Against Black Slavery in the Americas".	Referred To117th	Feb 22, 2022
HRES 488	Supporting a stable Colombia and opposing any threat to democracy in Colombia.	Referred To117th	Aug 4, 2021

Hearings, markups and business meetings, newest first. Every Congress on file.

Kind	Subject	Status	Date
Hearing	An International Response to Ortega’s Destruction of Democracy in NicaraguaRayburn House Office Building 217212 documents 4 witnesses Ms. Berta Valle, Journalist and Human Rights Defender Ms. Laura Chinchilla, (Former President of Costa Rica), Co-Chair Ms. Emily Mendrala, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Dr. Ryan Berg, Senior Fellow, Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies	Scheduled	Sep 21, 2021

Hearing	Historic Protests in Cuba and the Crackdown on Free Expression----------4 documents 2 witnesses Mr. José Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director, Americas Division Ms. Rosa Payá Acevedo, Director	Scheduled	Jul 20, 2021

Hearing	The Biden Administration’s Efforts to Deepen U.S. Engagement in the Caribbean8 documents 3 witnesses Ms. Laura Lochman, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Ms. Barbara Feinstein, Acting Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development Ms. Heide Fulton, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State	Scheduled	Jun 23, 2021

Hearing	A Race Against Time: Deploying Vaccines and Addressing the Disproportionate Impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean9 documents 3 witnesses Arachu Castro, Ph.D., MPH, Samuel Z. Stone Endowed Chair of Public Health in Latin America, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Ms. Tatiana Bertolucci, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean R. Evan Ellis, Ph.D., Latin America Research Professor, US Army War College	Rescheduled	May 13, 2021

Hearing	Renewing the United States’ Commitment to Addressing the Root Causes of Migration from Central America4 documents 2 witnesses Mr. Ricardo Zúniga, Special Envoy for the Northern Triangle, U.S. Department of State The Honorable Peter Natiello, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean	Scheduled	Apr 14, 2021

Hearing	A Way Forward for Venezuela: The Humanitarian, Diplomatic, and National Security Challenges Facing the Biden Administration11 documents 4 witnesses Mr. Feliciano Reyna, Founder and Executive President Cynthia Arnson, Ph.D., Director Ryan Berg, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Latin America Studies Mr. Brian Fonseca, Director, Florida International University	Scheduled	Mar 3, 2021

Hearing	The Health, Economic, and Political Challenges Facing Latin America and the Caribbean---------- CISCOWEBEX8 documents 3 witnesses Mr. Michael Camilleri, Director, Inter-American Dialogue Dr. Monica de Bolle, PhD, Professor, Latin American Studies Program, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice President	Scheduled	Sep 15, 2020

Hearing	The Trump Administration's Response to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean----------3 documents 2 witnesses Mr. Josh Hodges, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean The Honorable Michael Kozak, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs	Scheduled	Jul 1, 2020

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	Meetings
119th2025–2026, sitting	16	0	0	0	7
118th2023–2024	11	0	0	0	11
117th2021–2022	8	15	0	0	12
116th2019–2020	14	10	0	0	13
115th2017–2018	15	24	2	1	16
114th2015–2016	15	18	0	0	15
113th2013–2014	13	25	2	0	12
112th2011–2012	10	27	1	1	0
111th2009–2010	19	1	1	0	—
110th2007–2008	16	6	0	0	—
109th2005–2006	16	22	8	0	—
108th2003–2004	11	1	0	0	—
107th2001–2002	11	19	2	0	—

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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. 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, GovInfo and the House and Senate.