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	Energy Opportunities in South AmericaRayburn House Office Building 21727 documents 3 witnesses Mr. Jorge Pinon, Director, Latin America and Caribbean Program, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin Ms. Lisa Viscidi, Director, Energy, Climate Change, and Extractive Industries Program, Inter-American Dialogue Mr. Jason Bordoff, Professor and Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University	Scheduled	May 17, 2017

Hearing	Venezuela’s Tragic MeltdownRayburn House Office Building 217210 documents 4 witnesses Mr. Steve Hanke, Co-Director, Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, The Johns Hopkins University Hector Schamis,, Adjunct Professor, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University Mr. Russell Dallen,, President and Editor-in-Chief, Latin American Herald Tribune Michael McCarthy,, Research Fellow, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University	Rescheduled	Mar 28, 2017

Hearing	Issues and Opportunities in the Western HemisphereRayburn House Office Building 220010 documents 4 witnesses Ms. Sally Yearwood, Executive Director, Caribbean-Central American Action Mr. Joseph Humire, Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society Mr. Jose Cardenas, Former Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development Mr. Peter Quilter, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University	Scheduled	Feb 28, 2017

Markup	H. Res. 851 and H.R. 5708Rayburn House Office Building 21727 documents	Scheduled	Sep 15, 2016

Hearing	Nicaragua’s Democratic CollapseRayburn House Office Building 21724 documents 2 witnesses Mr. Juan Gonzalez, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State The Honorable Marcela Escobari, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development	Scheduled	Sep 15, 2016

Hearing	Venezuela’s Crisis: Implications for the RegionRayburn House Office Building 21726 documents 4 witnesses The Honorable Michael Kozak, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State Ms. Anne Pforzheimer, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State Mr. John Smith, Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury Mr. John Andersen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Department of Commerce	Scheduled	Jun 22, 2016

Hearing	The Impact of Low Oil Prices on Energy Security in the AmericasRayburn House Office Building 21727 documents 3 witnesses Mr. Amos Hochstein, Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S. Department of State Ms. Melanie Kenderdine, Director, Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, U.S. Department of Energy The Honorable Adam Sieminski, Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration	Rescheduled	Jun 9, 2016

Hearing	Year in Review: U.S. Policy Toward a Changing Western HemisphereRayburn House Office Building 22008 documents 3 witnesses The Honorable Roger Noriega, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute The Honorable Mary Long, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Metis Solutions Cynthia Arnson,, Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars	Scheduled	Dec 9, 2015

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.