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	Assessing the Human Rights Situation in Saudi Arabia---------- CISCO WEBE9 documents 3 witnesses Ms. Suzanne Nossel, Chief Executive Officer, PEN America Dr. Hala Aldosari, Ph.D., Scholar in Women’s Health and Activist from Saudi Arabia Ms. Kirsten Fontenrose, Director, Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, Atlantic Council	Scheduled	Mar 18, 2021

Hearing	The Crisis in Yemen: Part 1---------- CISCO WEBE9 documents 3 witnesses Mr. Abdulwasea Mohammed, Policy and Advocacy Advisor, Oxfam Ms. Amanda Catanzano, Senior Director, International Programs Policy and Advocacy, International Rescue Committee Ms. Radhya Almutawakel, Co-Founder and Chairperson, Mwatana for Human Rights	Scheduled	Mar 11, 2021

Hearing	Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls in the Middle East: An Analysis of Current Trends and U.S. Policy13 documents 4 witnesses Dr. Maha Yahya, Ph.D., Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center Dr. Hala Aldosari, Ph.D., Scholar in Women’s Health and Activist from Saudi Arabia Ms. Gayle Lemmon, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Ms. Jomana Qaddour, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council	Scheduled	Dec 2, 2020

Hearing	Egypt: Trends in Politics, Economics, and Human Rights----------18 documents 6 witnesses Dr. Michele Dunne, Ph.D., Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Ms. Amy Hawthorne, Deputy Director for Research, Project on Middle East Democracy Mr. Samuel Tadros, Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom, Hudson Institute Mr. Bahey Hassan, Director and Co-Founder, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Mr. Mohamed Soltan, President and Co-Founder, The Freedom Initiative Dr. Tamara Wittes, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution	Scheduled	Sep 9, 2020

Hearing	Objectives of U.S. Arms Sales to the Gulf: Examining Strategic Goals, Risks and Benefits9 documents 3 witnesses Lieutenant Colonel Jodi Vittori, Ph.D., Nonresident Scholar, U.S. Research and Policy Manager, Defense and Security Program, Transparency International Mr. Bradley Bowman, Senior Director, Center on Military and Political Power, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Dr. Andrew Exum, Ph.D., Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Middle East Policy, U.S. Department of Defense, Partner, Hakluyt & Company	Scheduled	Jun 16, 2020

Hearing	The Crisis in IdlibRayburn House Office Building 21729 documents 3 witnesses Ms. Dana Stroul, Shelly and Michael Kassen Fellow, Beth and David Geduld Program on Arab Politics Mr. Hardin Lang, Vice President for Programs and Policy, Refugees International Ms. Jennifer Cafarella, Research Director, Institute for the Study of War	Scheduled	Mar 11, 2020

Hearing	50 Years of the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Strengthening the NPT in the Face of Iranian and North Korean Nonproliferation Challenges13 documents 4 witnesses Dr. Wendin Smith, (Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, U.S. Department of State) Mr. Richard Johnson, Senior Director for Fuel Cycle and Verification, Nuclear Threat Initiative The Honorable Stephen Rademaker, Senior Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, Ph.D., Founder and President, Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation	Scheduled	Mar 3, 2020

Hearing	The Middle East Peace Process: An Analysis from Former U.S. NegotiatorsRayburn House Office Building 217210 documents 3 witnesses Mr. Frank Lowenstein, Executive Director, APCO Worldwide The Honorable Mara Rudman, Executive Vice President for Policy, Center for American Progress Mr. Michael Singh, Lane-Swig Senior Fellow, Managing Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy	Scheduled	Feb 12, 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	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.