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WASHINGTON – This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will convene for two full Committee hearings.    MEDIA POLICY: Press seating is limited. All media must RSVP to your respective gallery to reserve a seat, and only Hill-credentialed media will be permitted to attend. RSVP for all committee events, including hearings, and other special...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement on Rafah operations, the NSM-20 report, and humanitarian assistance to Gaza. “The U.S. has shown a clear commitment to ensuring Israel has what it needs to defend itself against ongoing threats posed by Hamas, Iran, and terrorist...

WASHINGTON – This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will convene for one nominations hearing. MEDIA POLICY: Press seating is limited. All media must RSVP to reserve a seat, and only Hill-credentialed media will be permitted to attend. RSVP for all committee events, including hearings, and other special events. Cameras and audio...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement commemorating World Press Freedom Day, which takes place on May 3, 2024.“An independent press is an essential part of a free and fair society, and a cornerstone of democracy,” said Chair Cardin. “Around the world, journalists and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement on the expiration of the United Nations (UN) Panel of Experts mandate related to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), following Russia’s veto of a routine resolution that would have extended the panel. Over the last...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations, delivered opening remarks at the full Committee hearing, “Conflict and Humanitarian Emergency in Sudan: An Urgent Call to Action.” In his remarks, the Chair once again sounded the alarm about the atrocities taking place in the country as war rages on, called...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues, sent the following letter to the Biden Administration expressing their support for...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote a bipartisan letter with 11 colleagues to the Prime Minister of Georgia following the re-introduction of a law that would force...

WASHINGTON – This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will convene for one Subcommittee hearing and one full Committee hearing. MEDIA POLICY: Press seating is limited. All media must RSVP to your respective gallery to reserve a seat, and only Hill-credentialed media will be permitted to attend. RSVP for all committee events, including...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement lauding the swearing-in of Haiti’s transitional council and thanking Kenyan President William Ruto for agreeing to have Kenya lead the United Nations’ Multinational Security Support mission to de-escalate violence and restore...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement on the findings of the State Department’s 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices:“75 years after the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices reveal that...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement after the Biden Administration announced a new package of weapons and equipment to support Ukraine as it defends against Russian aggression. “President Biden’s immediate delivery of $1 billion worth of air defense missiles,...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement commemorating Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.“Every April, we remember the one and a half million Armenian lives taken by the Ottoman Empire’s targeted campaign of extermination against Armenians, which began in Constantinople...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement following Senate passage of the national security supplemental funding package, including the Chair’s reauthorization of a key provision of the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act, which in 2018 codified into law...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with U.S. Representatives Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Ranking Member and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to President Biden urgently...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor marking one year since the onset of civil war in Sudan, and calling on the United States and our international partners to ramp up humanitarian assistance for war-affected Sudanese and for impacted...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Chair of Subcommittee on the Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy, along with Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Cory Booker...

WASHINGTON – In light of new allegations raised in a recent CBS 60 Minutes news segment, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), a senior member of the U.S. Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, and Susan Collins (R-Maine), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement after the Biden Administration announced it will reimpose oil and gas sanctions on Venezuela, under the provisions of the Barbados Agreement. “I welcome the Administration’s decision not to renew General License 44 and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Wicker (R-Miss.), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, celebrated the Committee’s passage of the bipartisan International Freedom Protection Act, which will modernize and enhance U.S. tools, strategies, and approaches...