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	Dollar Diplomacy or Debt Trap? Examining China’s Role in the Western HemisphereRayburn House Office Building 217210 documents 3 witnesses Ms. Margaret Myers, Program Director, Asia & Latin America Program Mr. Brian Fonseca, Director, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy Mr. Christopher Walker, Vice President for Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy	Scheduled	May 9, 2019

Hearing	Understanding Odebrecht: Lessons for Combating Corruption in the AmericasRayburn House Office Building 217210 documents 3 witnesses Mr. David Hall, Partner, Wiggin and Dana LLP Mr. Michael Camilleri, Director, Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program Ms. Katya Salazar, Executive Director, Due Process of Law Foundation	Scheduled	Mar 26, 2019

Hearing	Made by Maduro: The Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela and U.S. Policy ResponsesRayburn House Office Building 217211 documents 3 witnesses Mr. Santiago Canton, Former Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Ms. Marcela Escobari, Senior Fellow for Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution Mr. Moises Rendon, Associate Director and Associate Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies	Scheduled	Feb 26, 2019

Hearing	U.S. Policy Toward CubaRayburn House Office Building 21727 documents 5 witnesses The Honorable Kenneth Merten, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State The Honorable Peter Bodde, Coordinator, Health Incidents Response Task Force, U.S. Department of State Charles Rosenfarb,, Medical Director, Bureau of Medical Services, U.S. Department of State Mr. Todd Brown, Assistant Director for Countermeasures, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, U.S. Department of State Brian Mazanec,, Acting Director, International Affairs and Trade, U.S. Government Accountability Office	Scheduled	Sep 6, 2018

Markup	H. Res. 981Rayburn House Office Building 21724 documents	Scheduled	Jul 12, 2018

Hearing	Nicaraguan Crisis: Next Steps to Advancing DemocracyRayburn House Office Building 21729 documents 3 witnesses The Honorable Carlos Trujillo, U.S. Permanent Representative, Organization of American States The Honorable Michael Kozak, Senior Advisor and Senior Bureau Official, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State Ms. Barbara Feinstein, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development	Scheduled	Jul 12, 2018

Hearing	Advancing U.S. Business Investment and Trade in the AmericasRayburn House Office Building 217211 documents 3 witnesses Ms. Kellie Hock, Managing Partner, McLarty Associates Mr. Eric Farnsworth, Vice President, America's Society/Council of the Americas Mr. Neil Herrington, Senior Vice President for the Americas, U.S. Chamber of Commerce	Scheduled	Jun 7, 2018

Hearing	Combatting Transnational Criminal Threats in the Western HemisphereRayburn House Office Building 217211 documents 4 witnesses Ms. Jennifer Fowler, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of Treasury Mr. Richard Glenn, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State Rear Admiral Upper Half Brian Hendrickson,, Director, Network Engagement Team, U.S. Southern Command Mr. Raymond Villanueva, Assistant Director for International Operations, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Department of Homeland Security	Scheduled	May 23, 2018

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.