We’ve seen this before. President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal looks increasingly like the disastrous deal the United States struck with the regime in North Korea. In 1994, the U.S. government signed a nuclear deal with North Korea that, according to then-President Clinton, would “make the United States, the Korean Peninsula and the world safer.” The agreement, we were told, did “not rely on trust,” but instead would involve a verification program that would stop the North Koreans from ever acquiring a nuclear bomb. Sound familiar?

“I’ll be the last one to be critical if you walk away from this negotiating table,” says Foreign Affairs Chairman Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following the news that nuclear negotiations with Iran are likely to continue past tomorrow’s June 30th […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, and Kuwait: “These three bloody attacks come just days after ISIS called for such attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.  Indeed, ISIS has already claimed responsibility for the […]

Letter Comes After Government Watchdog Calls Out State Department for Looking Other Way Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry demanding answers to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that the Obama Administration has failed to […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed H.R. 2494, the Global Anti-Poaching Act, bipartisan legislation that will help the United States and partner countries counter the terrorist organizations, rebel groups, and international criminal syndicates that are profiting from international wildlife trafficking.  The legislation was introduced by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman […]

‘When your close associates are speaking out, you know you’re on the wrong track,’ says Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following the release of an open letter from several former prominent Obama Administration advisors.  The letter […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Committee will meet TOMORROW, Thursday, June 25 at 10:00 a.m. to consider: H.R. 2494, Global Anti-Poaching Act (introduced on May 21 by Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY)); and H.R. 2037, United States Commission […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following the latest developments in Iran negotiations.  New reports indicate that the agreement is set to offer Tehran high-tech reactors and convert Iran’s underground facility at Fordo for isotope production.  Also, in a recent speech, Iranian […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the Africa Subcommittee, and Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Africa Subcommittee, introduced bipartisan legislation that would establish a U.S. strategy to support […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the report issued by the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict: “While Israel is confronting the deadly hostility of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, this fatally flawed and biased report […]