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United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

Chairman John Cornyn R-TX Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse D-RI

0 bills referred in the 119th Congress so far

10 across the 4 Congresses on file, most in the 113th at 4. A referral is not a hearing: most bills sent to a committee are never taken up.

Bills referred, by Congress 112th to 116th

Members

Seated in the 119th Congress

Meetings

Hearings and business meetings in the 119th Congress

Members 7

Chair and ranking member first, then alphabetically. Today's official roster.

Seat	Member	Role
R-TX	John Cornyn	Chairman
D-RI	Sheldon Whitehouse	Chairman
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján
R-OH	Bernie Moreno
R-IA	Chuck Grassley
R-ID	James E. Risch
D-CT	Richard Blumenthal

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
S 605	David Mitchell Rozga Act	Hearings By112th	Apr 6, 2011
S 409	Combating Dangerous Synthetic Stimulants Act of 2011	Hearings By112th	Apr 6, 2011

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

Kind	Subject	Status	Date
Open Hearing	Hearings to examine the global reach of Mexican drug cartels and risks to U.S. national security.Dirksen Senate Office Building 419	Scheduled	Jun 24, 2026
Meeting	Hearings to examine Chinese organized crime in Latin America.Dirksen Senate Office Building 215	Scheduled	Dec 9, 2025
Meeting	Hearings to examine Hezbollah's Latin American drug trafficking operations.Dirksen Senate Office Building 215	Scheduled	Oct 21, 2025
Meeting	Hearings to examine Chinese money laundering organizations, focusing on cleaning cartel cash.Dirksen Senate Office Building 608	Scheduled	Apr 30, 2024
Meeting	Hearings to examine shell companies, focusing on a risk to national security, public health, and rule of law.Dirksen Senate Office Building 608	Scheduled	Apr 9, 2024
Meeting	Hearings to examine the precursor pipeline, focusing on techniques that drug cartels use to procure and finance precursor chemicals that are used to manufacture illicit synthetic drugs, and actions the Federal government can take to address this issue.Dirksen Senate Office Building 608	Scheduled	Oct 24, 2023
Meeting	Hearings to examine the role of the Federal government in attacking the financial networks of cartels.	Scheduled	Jul 12, 2022
Meeting	An oversight hearing to examine the Office of National Drug Control Policy and its 2022 National Drug Control Strategy.Dirksen Senate Office Building 608	Scheduled	Jun 15, 2022

The published transcripts, newest first, from GovInfo. Every Congress on file.

Hearing	Title	Held
S. Hrg. 116-252	Marijuana and America's Health: Questions and Issues for Policy Makers Caucus on International Narcotics Control118 pages	Oct 23, 2019
S. Hrg. 111-528	Law Enforcement Responses to Mexican Drug Cartels166 pages 5 witnesses Aguirre, Jorge Luis, Journalist, El Paso, Texas Dresser Guerra, Denise Eugenia, Professor, Department of Political Science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Goodard, Terry, Attorney General, State of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona Hoover, William, Assistant Director for Field Operations, Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Anthony P. Placido, Assistant Administrator and Chief of Intelligence, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Deaprtment of Justice, Washington, DC Kibble, Kumar C., Deputy Director, Office of Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC	Mar 17, 2009
S. Hrg. 108-814	Abuse of Anabolic Steroids and Their Precursors by Adolescent Amateur Athletes103 pagesOn S. 2195	Jul 13, 2004
S. Hrg. 108-706	Money Laundering: Current Status of Our Efforts to Coordinate and Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing100 pagesOn S. 462	Mar 4, 2004
S. Hrg. 108-236	U.s Policy Regarding Narcotics Control in Colombia89 pages 6 witnesses Santos-Calderon, Hon. Francisco, Vice President, Republic of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia Simons, Paul E., Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC. and J. Curtis Struble, Acting Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC Struble, J. Curtis, Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Western Hemisphere Affairs, prepared statement Hill, James T., Commander, U.S. Army, Miami, Florida; accompanied by Marshall Billingslea, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC Ford, Jess T., Director, International Affairs and Trade, U.S. General Accounting Office, Washington, DC McLean, Phillip, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, The Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC	Jun 3, 2003

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	Became law	Meetings	Printed hearings
119th2025–2026, sitting	7	0	0	3	0
118th2023–2024	5	0	0	3	0
117th2021–2022	7	0	0	5	0
116th2019–2020	0	1	0	2	1
115th2017–2018	1	0	0	—	0
114th2015–2016	1	2	1	—	0
113th2013–2014	0	4	0	—	0
112th2011–2012	1	3	0	—	0
111th2009–2010	1	0	0	—	1
108th2003–2004	0	0	0	—	3

Membership changes 8

Who joined, left or changed role after the committee was first filled, newest first, each with the official record.

Date	Member	Change	Record
Feb 26, 2025	Sheldon Whitehouse D-RI	Joined as Vice Chair	Congressional Record, S1391
Feb 26, 2025	Richard Blumenthal D-CT	Joined	Congressional Record, S1391
Feb 26, 2025	Ben Ray Luján D-NM	Joined	Congressional Record, S1391
Jun 8, 2023	Chuck Grassley R-IA	Joined as Vice Chair	Congressional Record, S2035
Apr 20, 2021	Richard Blumenthal D-CT	Joined	Congressional Record, S2061
Apr 20, 2021	Sheldon Whitehouse D-RI	Joined as Chair	Congressional Record, S2061
Apr 20, 2021	Ben Ray Luján D-NM	Joined	Congressional Record, S2061
Apr 20, 2021	Margaret Wood Hassan D-NH	Joined	Congressional Record, S2061

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