United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs · Full chronicle and history

The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the Bureau of Industry and Security's fiscal year 2027 budget, during which lawmakers discussed the issue of Chinese companies evading U.S. export controls on chips and related technologies.

The US House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the Indo-Pacific strategy, discussing the progress of US-Taiwan arms sales and the deployment of US Coast Guard vessels and other resources to the Philippines and Guam to counter the threat from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The US House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed a bipartisan chip security bill aimed at curbing the smuggling of American semiconductors to foreign adversaries like China.

In December 2025, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led by Mast, passed the Dismantle Foreign Scam Cartels Act, which aims to strengthen interagency coordination in legal form and bolster the U.S. government's response to the scam center crisis; it still awaits passage by the full House and Senate and signature by the President.