HSFA16 · House Subcommittee

Africa Subcommittee

Under Foreign Affairs Committee foreignaffairs.house.gov

House Subcommittee on Africa

Showing the 115th Congress (2017–2018), when this was the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Back to the 119th Congress

34 bills referred in the 115th Congress

301 across the 8 Congresses on file, most in the 112th at 69. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 109th to 117th

Members

Served in the 115th Congress

Meetings

Hearings and business meetings in the 115th Congress

Members, 115th Congress 9

Everyone listed on the subcommittee in the 115th Congress, from printed hearings, the Congressional Directory and the official rosters.

Seat	Member	Role
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith	Chair
D-CA	Ami Bera
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
D-TX	Joaquin Castro
D-CA	Karen Bass
R-NC	Mark Meadows
R-VA	Thomas A. Garrett, Jr.
D-NY	Thomas R. Suozzi

Record

Bills, meetings, hearings, reports and more, newest first. In the 115th Congress.

Newest activity first. In the 115th Congress.

Bill	Title	Referral	Date
HRES 896	Condemning Boko Haram and calling on the Governments of the United States of America and Nigeria to swiftly implement measures to defeat the terrorist organization.	Referred To	Jun 4, 2018
HRES 820	Recognizing the life and significant contributions of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, and an icon in the international fight against apartheid and injustice in South Africa, for her leadership and her devotion to the cause of freedom for all South Africans.	Referred To	Jun 4, 2018
HRES 797	Recognizing the contributions of the Montagnard indigenous tribespeople of the Central Highlands of Vietnam to the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War, and condemning the ongoing violation of human rights by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.	Referred To	Jun 4, 2018
HRES 777	Strongly reaffirming support for the Good Friday Agreement, urging the British and Irish Governments to vigorously implement certain aspects of the Agreement, and urging the Secretary of State to appoint a Special Envoy for Northern Ireland and to continue to promote full implementation of the Agreement.	Referred To	Jun 4, 2018
HR 5621	Vietnam Human Rights Act	Referred To	Jun 4, 2018
HR 3030	Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018	Discharged From	May 10, 2018
HR 1911	Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2018	Discharged From	May 10, 2018
HRES 620	Strongly condemning the terrorist attack in Mogadishu, Somalia on October 14, 2017, and expressing condolences and sympathies to the victims of the attack and their families.	Referred To	Nov 29, 2017

Hearings, markups and business meetings, newest first. In the 115th Congress.

Kind	Subject	Status	Date
Hearing	Nigeria at a Crossroads: The Upcoming ElectionsRayburn House Office Building 21726 documents 2 witnesses The Honorable Tibor Nagy,, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State Mr. Ramsey Day, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development	Scheduled	Dec 13, 2018

Hearing	Reviewing International Child AbductionRayburn House Office Building 21729 documents 3 witnesses Mr. Jeffery Morehouse, Executive Director, Bring Abducted Children Home Mr. Juan Garaicoa, Father of Two Children Abducted to Ecuador Ms. Michelle Littleton, Mother of Three Children Abducted to Lebanon	Rescheduled	Dec 10, 2018

Hearing	China's War on Christianity and Other Religious FaithsRayburn House Office Building 225510 documents 3 witnesses Bob Fu,, Founder and President, ChinaAid Tenzin Dorjee,, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Thomas Farr,, President, Religious Freedom Institute	Scheduled	Sep 27, 2018

Hearing	Reviewing Current Developments in EthiopiaRayburn House Office Building 217216 documents 5 witnesses The Honorable Tibor Nagy,, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State Ms. Emily Estelle, Senior Analyst, Critical Threats Project, American Enterprise Institute Mr. Yoseph Badwaza, Senior Program Officer - Africa, Freedom House Mr. Jamal Said, President, Oromo Community of Denver Mr. Girum Alemayehu, Co-Founder, Ethiopian American Development Council	Scheduled	Sep 12, 2018

Hearing	Tackling Fentanyl: Holding China AccountableRayburn House Office Building 220015 documents 5 witnesses Mr. Paul Knierim, Deputy Chief of Operations, Office of Global Enforcement, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice Bryce Pardo,, Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation Daniel Ciccarone,, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Mr. Joseph Coronato, Prosecutor, Prosecutor's Office, Ocean County, New Jersey The Honorable Kirsten Madison, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State	Scheduled	Sep 6, 2018

Hearing	Combating Tuberculosis in Southern AfricaRayburn House Office Building 22556 documents 3 witnesses The Honorable Deborah Birx,, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy, U.S. Department of State Ms. Irene Koek, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Global Health Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development Rebecca Martin,, Director, Center for Global Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Rescheduled	Jul 12, 2018

Hearing	Crisis in the Republic of CameroonRayburn House Office Building 217210 documents 4 witnesses The Honorable Donald Yamamoto, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State Mr. Hans Heungoup, Senior Analyst, Central Africa, International Crisis Group Mr. Efi Tembon, Executive Director, Cameroonian Association for Bible Translation and Literacy Mr. Adotei Akwei, Advocacy and Government Relations, Amnesty International United States	Scheduled	Jun 27, 2018

Hearing	Human Rights Concerns in Sri LankaRayburn House Office Building 220014 documents 4 witnesses Mr. J.S. Tissainayagam, Journalist and Human Rights Advocate Michael Jerryson,, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Youngstown State University Mr. David Crane, Principal, Justice Consultancy International, LLC Mr. John Sifton, Asia Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch	Scheduled	Jun 20, 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	13	0	0	0	9
118th2023–2024	10	0	0	0	9
117th2021–2022	14	13	0	0	13
116th2019–2020	9	33	0	0	14
115th2017–2018	9	34	0	1	34
114th2015–2016	9	46	7	1	33
113th2013–2014	8	49	7	1	29
112th2011–2012	10	69	2	1	0
111th2009–2010	11	0	0	0	—
110th2007–2008	11	4	1	0	—
109th2005–2006	13	53	18	3	—

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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.