HSFA13 · House Subcommittee

Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee

Under Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael Lawler R-NY Ranking Member Jared Moskowitz D-FL foreignaffairs.house.gov

House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa

Fact sheet Spreadsheet

0 bills referred in the 119th Congress so far

246 across the 10 Congresses on file, most in the 112th at 49. 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-NY	Michael Lawler	Chair
D-FL	Jared Moskowitz	Ranking Member
D-CA	Brad Sherman
D-IL	Bradley Scott Schneider
R-CA	Darrell Issa
D-NY	George Latimer
R-SC	Joe Wilson
D-MD	Kweisi Mfume
R-WA	Michael Baumgartner
R-TX	Ronny Jackson
R-MT	Ryan K. Zinke
R-NJ	Thomas H. Kean, Jr.
R-TN	Tim Burchett
D-MA	William R. Keating

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
HCONRES 110	Commending the bravery, courage, and resolve of the women and men of Iran demonstrating in more than 80 cities and risking their safety to speak out against the Iranian regime's human rights abuses.	Discharged From117th	Dec 6, 2022
HR 9075	Support for Iranian Political Prisoners Act	Referred To117th	Sep 29, 2022
HRES 1397	Condemning the Government of Iran's torture and murder of Mahsa Amini and its crackdown on protesters seeking basic human rights, and supporting the protesters in their demands for freedom.	Referred To117th	Sep 28, 2022
HRES 1359	Commemorating the second anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords Declaration.	Referred To117th	Sep 15, 2022
HRES 744	Condemning the Government of Iran's state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.	Discharged From117th	Jul 27, 2022
HR 7987	DEFEND Act of 2022	Referred To117th	Jun 8, 2022
HRES 733	Congratulating the people of the Republic of Turkey and Turkish Americans nationwide on the 98th anniversary of Turkish Republic Day.	Referred To117th	Feb 22, 2022
HRES 751	Condemning the repressive designation by the Government of Israel of six prominent Palestinian human rights and civil society groups as terrorist organizations, and for other purposes.	Referred To117th	Feb 22, 2022

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

Kind	Subject	Status	Date
Hearing	Confronting Yemen's Humanitarian and Political Crises Without a CeasefireRayburn House Office Building 22005 documents 2 witnesses Ms. Sarah Charles, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development The Honorable Timothy Lenderking, U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen, U.S. Department of State	Scheduled	Dec 6, 2022

Hearing	Examining the U.S. Interest in Regional Security Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa: Opportunities, Obstacles, and ObjectivesRayburn House Office Building 217212 documents 4 witnesses The Honorable Daniel Shapiro, Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council Mr. Andrew Exum, Partner, Hakluyt & Company Ms. Linda Robinson, Former Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy, RAND Corporation The Honorable David Schenker, Director of the Program on Arab Politics, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy	Scheduled	Sep 21, 2022

Hearing	Examining the U.S. Interest in Regional Security Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa: Opportunities, Obstacles, and Objectives	Scheduled	Jul 14, 2022
Hearing	The Biden Administration's Policy Objectives in the Middle East and North AfricaRayburn House Office Building 2172	Scheduled	Jun 22, 2022
Hearing	The Impact of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in the Middle East and North AfricaRayburn House Office Building 217212 documents 4 witnesses Dr. Hanna Notte, Senior Research Associate, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Dr. Frederic Wehrey, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Ms. Caitlin Welsh, Director of the Global Food Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies Mr. Grant Rumley, Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy	Scheduled	May 18, 2022

Hearing	Opportunities and Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean: Examining U.S. Interests and Regional Cooperation12 documents 4 witnesses Mr. Alan Makovsky, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Ms. Alissa de Carbonnel, Deputy Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group Dr. Frederick Kagan, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Dr. Howard Eissenstat, Associate Professor of Middle East History, St. Lawrence University	Scheduled	Mar 31, 2022

Hearing	11 Years of War: The Humanitarian Impact of the Ongoing Conflict in Syria13 documents 4 witnesses Ms. Jomana Qaddour, Head of the Syria Project, Atlantic Council Mr. Hardin Lang, Vice President for Programs and Policy, Refugees International Ms. Nirvana Shawky, Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, CARE Mr. Joel Rayburn, Fellow, New America Foundation	Scheduled	Mar 16, 2022

Hearing	The Biden Administration's Policy Objectives in the Middle East and North Africa 2 witnesses Ms. Yael Lempert, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Mr. Andrew Plitt, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for the Middle East	Scheduled	Feb 2, 2022

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	11
118th2023–2024	14	0	0	0	13
117th2021–2022	20	24	0	0	18
116th2019–2020	18	22	0	0	20
115th2017–2018	22	27	6	0	27
114th2015–2016	19	29	3	0	19
113th2013–2014	24	31	5	0	15
112th2011–2012	22	49	0	1	0
111th2009–2010	26	0	0	0	—
110th2007–2008	19	8	0	0	—
109th2005–2006	18	37	11	1	—
108th2003–2004	18	4	4	0	—
107th2001–2002	20	15	0	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.