House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders reacted differently to the sanctions the Biden administration announced this week against Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa, the procurement director of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia group, which is fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged the Biden administration late Oct. 7 to impose “robust” sanctions on the leaders of Sudan’s two warring parties for what his office called “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said last week he welcomes a renewed call by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to pass legislation restricting outbound investment in China. McCaul tweeted that he will help Johnson “get these efforts across the finish line.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, urged the Biden administration last week to stop blocking the transfer of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, saying such large weapons are “operationally necessary” to strike deeply buried bunkers and tunnels used by Israel's enemies.
A bipartisan group of four senators announced this week that they will introduce a bill that would require the Biden administration to develop a “comprehensive strategy” to use sanctions and other tools to protect civilians from Sudan’s "brutal" civil war.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., urged the Biden administration this week to expand the export control exemption it intends to give Australia and the U.K. under the AUKUS security partnership.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced six joint resolutions of disapproval last week that would block the sale of more than $20 billion in U.S. military equipment to Israel, including bombs, fighter jets, ground vehicles, mortar rounds and tank ammunition.
Three Senate committee chairs urged the Biden administration last week to sanction the Amana organization, an Israeli settlement group in the West Bank, for fomenting violence against Palestinian civilians.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which has held two hearings this year on U.S. computing chips ending up in Russian weapons, plans to hold more hearings on the subject, its chairman said last week.
More than 60 Senate and House Democrats on Sept. 27 called on the Biden administration, including the Bureau of Industry and Security, to take more steps to stop the illegal trafficking of U.S.-made guns to Haiti.