The Foreign Relations Committee is considered one of the most powerful and prestigious in the Senate, due to its long history, broad influence on U.S. foreign policy, jurisdiction over all diplomatic nominations, and its being the only Senate committee to deliberate and report treaties.[3]
In 1943, a confidential analysis of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by British scholar Isaiah Berlin for the Foreign Office stated:[4]
The Senate of the United States ... keeps a close watch on foreign policy, not merely in theory but in practice. The two-thirds majority of the Senate needed for the ratification of all foreign treaties is only the best known of its powers, but its general control over all legislation and its power of veto over the appointment of ambassadors, and other high public officials, and the influence of its views over public opinion, give it a unique position in the determination of United States foreign policy. The organ within the Senate which moulds this policy is the Foreign Relations Committee, which has in its power to alter, delay and, under certain political circumstances, to veto almost any piece of major policy in this field.
History
Between 1887 and 1907, Alabama Democrat John Tyler Morgan played a leading role on the committee. Morgan called for a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Nicaragua, enlarging the merchant marine and the Navy, and acquiring Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Cuba. He expected Latin American and Asian markets would become a new export market for Alabama's cotton, coal, iron, and timber. The canal would make trade with the Pacific much more feasible, and an enlarged military would protect that new trade. By 1905, most of his dreams had become reality, with the canal passing through Panama instead of Nicaragua.[5]
Refusing to give the lady [Peace Treaty of Versailles] a seat—by Senators Borah, Lodge and Johnson
During World War II, the committee took the lead in rejecting traditional isolationism and designing a new internationalist foreign policy based on the assumption that the United Nations would be a much more effective force than the old discredited League of Nations. Of special concern was the insistence that Congress play a central role in postwar foreign policy, as opposed to its ignorance of the main decisions made during the war.[6] Republican senator Arthur Vandenberg played the central role.[7]
In 1966, as tensions over the Vietnam War escalated, the committee set up hearings on possible relations with Communist China. Witnesses, especially academic specialists on East Asia, suggested to the American public that it was time to adopt a new policy of containment without isolation. The hearings Indicated that American public opinion toward China had moved away from hostility and toward cooperation. The hearings had a long-term impact when Richard Nixon became president, discarded containment, and began a policy of détente with China.[8] The problem remained of how to deal simultaneously with the Chinese government on Taiwan after formal recognition was accorded to the Beijing government. The committee drafted the Taiwan Relations Act (US, 1979) which enabled the United States both to maintain friendly relations with Taiwan and to develop fresh relations with China.[9]
In response to conservative criticism that the state department lacked hardliners, President Ronald Reagan in 1981 nominated Ernest W. Lefever as Assistant Secretary of State. Lefever performed poorly at his confirmation hearings and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations rejected his nomination by vote of 4–13, prompting Lefever to withdraw his name.[10]Elliot Abrams filled the position.
Republican senator Jesse Helms, a staunch conservative, was committee chairman in the late 1990s. He pushed for reform of the UN by blocking payment of U.S. membership dues.[11]
Chris Murphy and another official from the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee inspecting burnt down printing press of Uthayan newspaper in Jaffna on December 7, 2013, while E. Saravanapavan, the managing director of the newspaper explaining something to him.
^Renamed from Committee on International Relations by the 110th Congress in January 2007.
References
^"Committee History & Rules | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations". www.foreign.senate.gov.
^ ab"Committee History & Rules | United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations". www.foreign.senate.gov. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
^"12.6 Committees", American Government and Politics in the Information Age, University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing edition, 2016. This edition adapted from a work originally produced in 2011 by a publisher who has requested that it not receive attribution., November 16, 2016, retrieved January 22, 2021
^Hachey, Thomas E. (Winter 1973–1974). (PDF). Wisconsin Magazine of History. 57 (2): 141–153. JSTOR 4634869. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2013.
^Joseph A. Fry, "John Tyler Morgan's Southern Expansionism," Diplomatic History (1985) 9#4 pp: 329-346.
^Roland Young, Congressional Politics in the Second World War (1958), pp 168–96
^James A. Gazell, "Arthur H. Vandenberg, Internationalism, and the United Nations." Political Science Quarterly (1973) pp: 375-394. in JSTOR
^Katherine Klinefelter, "The China Hearings: America's Shifting Paradigm on China," Congress & the Presidency (2011) 38#1 pp: 60-76.
^Jacob K. Javits, "Congress And Foreign Relations: The Taiwan Relations Act," Foreign Affairs (1981) 60#1 pp 54-62
^Robert David Johnson (2005). Congress and the Cold War. Cambridge UO. pp. 253–54. ISBN9781139447447.
^William A. Link, Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (2008)
^Sen. Menendez voluntarily stepped down as Ranking Member on 1 April 2015 after being indicted by the Justice Department. Menendez Gives Up Foreign Relations Post
Further reading
Carter, Ralph G. and James Scott, eds. Choosing to Lead : Understanding Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs (Duke University Press, 2009)
Crabb, Cecil Van Meter, and Pat M. Holt. Invitation to struggle: Congress, the president, and foreign policy (CQ Press, 1992)
Dahl, Robert A. Congress and Foreign Policy (1950)
Farnsworth, David Nelson. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (University of Illinois Press, 1961), a topical survey of the committee's activity from 1947 to 1956.
Frye, Alton. "'Gobble'uns' and foreign policy: a review," Journal of Conflict Resolution (1964) 8#3 pp: 314–321. Historiographical review of major books
Gagnon, Frédérick. "Dynamic Men: Vandenberg, Fulbright, Helms and the Activity of the Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Since 1945." online (2013)
Gazell, James A. "Arthur H. Vandenberg, Internationalism, and the United Nations." Political Science Quarterly (1973): 375–394. in JSTOR
Gould, Lewis. The Most Exclusive Club : A History of the Modern United States Senate (2006)
Hewes, James E. Jr. "Henry Cabot Lodge and the League of Nations". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1970) 114#4 pp: 245–255.
Hitchens, Harold L., "Influences of the Congressional Decision to Pass the Marshall Plan" Western Political Science Quarterly (1968) 21#1 pp: 51–68. in JSTOR
Jewell, Malcolm E. Senatorial Politics and Foreign Policy (U. of Kentucky Press, 1962)
Kaplan, Lawrence S. The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg: From Isolation to International Engagement (University Press of Kentucky, 2015)
Link, William A. Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (2008)
McCormick, James M. "Decision making in the foreign affairs and foreign relations committees." in Randall B. Ripley and James M. Lindsay, eds.. Congress resurgent: foreign and defense policy on Capitol Hill (University of Michigan press, 1993) pp: 115-153
Maguire, Lori. "The US Congress and the politics of Afghanistan: an analysis of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees during George W Bush's second term." Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2013) 26#2 pp: 430–452.
Shaw, John T. (2012). Richard G. Lugar, Statesman of the Senate: Crafting Foreign Policy from Capitol Hill. Indiana UP. p. 73. ISBN978-0253007117.
Robinson, James A. Congress and Foreign Policy-Making (1962), statistical study of roll calls emphasizing the importance of the committee
Spanier, John, and Joseph Nogee, eds. Congress, the Presidency and American Foreign Policy (Elsevier, 2013)
Warburg, Gerald Felix. Conflict and consensus: The struggle between Congress and the president over foreign policymaking (HarperCollins Publishers, 1989)
Woods, Randall Bennett. Fulbright : A Biography (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Young, Roland. Congressional Politics in the Second World War (1958), pp 168–96
Primary sources
Vandenberg, Arthur Hendrick, and Joe Alex Morris, eds. The private papers of Senator Vandenberg. (1952)
External links
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U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) Page for the Committee of Foreign Relations
February 10, 2023
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Committee on Foreign Relations redirects here Not to be confused with Council on Foreign Relations The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the U S Senate charged with leading foreign policy legislation and debate in the Senate It is generally responsible for overseeing and funding foreign aid programs funding arms sales and training for national allies and holding confirmation hearings for high level positions in the Department of State 1 Its sister committee in the House of Representatives is the Committee on Foreign Affairs note 1 Senate Foreign Relations CommitteeStanding committeeActive United States Senate118th CongressHistoryFormed1816LeadershipChairBob Menendez D Since February 3 2021Ranking memberJim Risch R Since February 3 2021StructureSeats21 membersPolitical partiesMajority 11 Democratic 11 Minority 10 Republican 10 JurisdictionPolicy areasForeign policy aid diplomacyOversight authorityDepartment of StateAgency for International DevelopmentHouse counterpartHouse Committee on Foreign AffairsMeeting place423 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWashington D C Websiteforeign senate govRulesRule XXV 1 j Standing Rules of the SenateRules of the Committee on Foreign RelationsAlong with the Finance and Judiciary committees the Foreign Relations Committee is among the oldest in the Senate dating to the initial creation of committees in 1816 2 It has played a leading role in several important treaties and foreign policy initiatives throughout U S history including the Alaska purchase the establishment of the United Nations and the passage of the Marshall Plan 2 The committee has also produced eight U S presidents Andrew Jackson James Buchanan Andrew Johnson Benjamin Harrison Warren Harding John F Kennedy Barack Obama and Joe Biden and 19 secretaries of state Notable members have included Arthur Vandenberg Henry Cabot Lodge and William Fulbright The Foreign Relations Committee is considered one of the most powerful and prestigious in the Senate due to its long history broad influence on U S foreign policy jurisdiction over all diplomatic nominations and its being the only Senate committee to deliberate and report treaties 3 Since 2021 the Foreign Relations Committee has been chaired by Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey Contents 1 Role 2 History 3 Members 118th Congress 4 Chairmen 1816 present 5 Historical committee rosters 5 1 117th Congress 5 2 116th Congress 5 3 115th Congress 5 4 114th Congress 5 5 113th Congress 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 Further reading 9 1 Primary sources 10 External linksRole EditIn 1943 a confidential analysis of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by British scholar Isaiah Berlin for the Foreign Office stated 4 The Senate of the United States keeps a close watch on foreign policy not merely in theory but in practice The two thirds majority of the Senate needed for the ratification of all foreign treaties is only the best known of its powers but its general control over all legislation and its power of veto over the appointment of ambassadors and other high public officials and the influence of its views over public opinion give it a unique position in the determination of United States foreign policy The organ within the Senate which moulds this policy is the Foreign Relations Committee which has in its power to alter delay and under certain political circumstances to veto almost any piece of major policy in this field History EditBetween 1887 and 1907 Alabama Democrat John Tyler Morgan played a leading role on the committee Morgan called for a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Nicaragua enlarging the merchant marine and the Navy and acquiring Hawaii Puerto Rico the Philippines and Cuba He expected Latin American and Asian markets would become a new export market for Alabama s cotton coal iron and timber The canal would make trade with the Pacific much more feasible and an enlarged military would protect that new trade By 1905 most of his dreams had become reality with the canal passing through Panama instead of Nicaragua 5 Refusing to give the lady Peace Treaty of Versailles a seat by Senators Borah Lodge and Johnson During World War II the committee took the lead in rejecting traditional isolationism and designing a new internationalist foreign policy based on the assumption that the United Nations would be a much more effective force than the old discredited League of Nations Of special concern was the insistence that Congress play a central role in postwar foreign policy as opposed to its ignorance of the main decisions made during the war 6 Republican senator Arthur Vandenberg played the central role 7 Committee chairman Senator J William Fulbright left with Senator Wayne Morse during a hearing on the Vietnam War in 1966 In 1966 as tensions over the Vietnam War escalated the committee set up hearings on possible relations with Communist China Witnesses especially academic specialists on East Asia suggested to the American public that it was time to adopt a new policy of containment without isolation The hearings Indicated that American public opinion toward China had moved away from hostility and toward cooperation The hearings had a long term impact when Richard Nixon became president discarded containment and began a policy of detente with China 8 The problem remained of how to deal simultaneously with the Chinese government on Taiwan after formal recognition was accorded to the Beijing government The committee drafted the Taiwan Relations Act US 1979 which enabled the United States both to maintain friendly relations with Taiwan and to develop fresh relations with China 9 In response to conservative criticism that the state department lacked hardliners President Ronald Reagan in 1981 nominated Ernest W Lefever as Assistant Secretary of State Lefever performed poorly at his confirmation hearings and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations rejected his nomination by vote of 4 13 prompting Lefever to withdraw his name 10 Elliot Abrams filled the position Republican senator Jesse Helms a staunch conservative was committee chairman in the late 1990s He pushed for reform of the UN by blocking payment of U S membership dues 11 Members 118th Congress EditMain article 118th United States Congress Majority 12 Minority 13 Bob Menendez New Jersey Chairman Ben Cardin Maryland Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire Chris Coons Delaware Chris Murphy Connecticut Tim Kaine Virginia Jeff Merkley Oregon Cory Booker New Jersey Brian Schatz Hawaii Chris Van Hollen Maryland Tammy Duckworth Illinois Jim Risch Idaho Ranking Member Marco Rubio Florida Mitt Romney Utah Pete Ricketts Nebraska Rand Paul Kentucky Todd Young Indiana John Barrasso Wyoming Ted Cruz Texas Bill Hagerty Tennessee Tim Scott South CarolinaChairmen 1816 present Edit 1976 publication of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the occasion of its 160th anniversary Chairman Party State YearsJames Barbour Democratic Republican Virginia 1816 1818Nathaniel Macon Democratic Republican North Carolina 1818 1819James Brown Democratic Republican Louisiana 1819 1820James Barbour Democratic Republican Virginia 1820 1821Rufus King Federalist New York 1821 1822James Barbour Democratic Republican Virginia 1822 1825Nathaniel Macon Democratic Republican North Carolina 1825 1826Nathan Sanford Democratic Republican New York 1826 1827Nathaniel Macon Democratic Republican North Carolina 1827 1828Littleton Tazewell Democratic Virginia 1828 1832John Forsyth Democratic Georgia 1832 1833William Wilkins Democratic Pennsylvania 1833 1834Henry Clay Whig Kentucky 1834 1836James Buchanan Democratic Pennsylvania 1836 1841William C Rives Whig Virginia 1841 1842William S Archer Whig Virginia 1842 1845William Allen Democratic Ohio 1845 1846Ambrose H Sevier Democratic Arkansas 1846 1848Edward A Hannegan Democratic Indiana 1848 1849Thomas Hart Benton Democratic Missouri 1849William R King Democratic Alabama 1849 1850Henry S Foote Democratic Mississippi 1850 1851James M Mason Democratic Virginia 1851 1861Charles Sumner Republican Massachusetts 1861 1871Simon Cameron Republican Pennsylvania 1871 1877Hannibal Hamlin Republican Maine 1877 1879William W Eaton Democratic Connecticut 1879 1881Ambrose Burnside Republican Rhode Island 1881George F Edmunds Republican Vermont 1881William Windom Republican Minnesota 1881 1883John F Miller Republican California 1883 1886John Sherman Republican Ohio 1886 1893John T Morgan Democratic Alabama 1893 1895John Sherman Republican Ohio 1895 1897William P Frye Republican Maine 1897Cushman Davis Republican Minnesota 1897 1901Shelby M Cullom Republican Illinois 1901 1911Augustus O Bacon Democratic Georgia 1913 1914William J Stone Democratic Missouri 1914 1918Gilbert M Hitchcock Democratic Nebraska 1918 1919Henry Cabot Lodge Republican Massachusetts 1919 1924William E Borah Republican Idaho 1924 1933Key Pittman Democratic Nevada 1933 1940Walter F George Democratic Georgia 1940 1941Tom Connally Democratic Texas 1941 1947Arthur H Vandenberg Republican Michigan 1947 1949Tom Connally Democratic Texas 1949 1953Alexander Wiley Republican Wisconsin 1953 1955Walter F George Democratic Georgia 1955 1957Theodore F Green Democratic Rhode Island 1957 1959J William Fulbright Democratic Arkansas 1959 1975John J Sparkman Democratic Alabama 1975 1979Frank Church Democratic Idaho 1979 1981Charles H Percy Republican Illinois 1981 1985Richard Lugar Republican Indiana 1985 1987Claiborne Pell Democratic Rhode Island 1987 1995Jesse Helms Republican North Carolina 1995 2001Joe Biden Democratic Delaware 2001Jesse Helms Republican North Carolina 2001Joe Biden Democratic Delaware 2001 2003Richard Lugar Republican Indiana 2003 2007Joe Biden Democratic Delaware 2007 2009John Kerry Democratic Massachusetts 2009 2013Bob Menendez Democratic New Jersey 2013 2015Bob Corker Republican Tennessee 2015 2019Jim Risch Republican Idaho 2019 2021Bob Menendez Democratic New Jersey 2021 presentHistorical committee rosters Edit117th Congress Edit Main article 117th United States Congress Majority MinorityBob Menendez New Jersey Chairman Ben Cardin Maryland Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire Chris Coons Delaware Chris Murphy Connecticut Tim Kaine Virginia Ed Markey Massachusetts Jeff Merkley Oregon Cory Booker New Jersey Brian Schatz Hawaii Chris Van Hollen Maryland Jim Risch Idaho Ranking Member Marco Rubio Florida Ron Johnson Wisconsin Mitt Romney Utah Rob Portman Ohio Rand Paul Kentucky Todd Young Indiana Ted Cruz Texas John Barrasso Wyoming Mike Rounds South Dakota Bill Hagerty TennesseeSubcommitteesSubcommittees Chair Ranking MemberAfrica and Global Health Policy Chris Van Hollen D MD Mike Rounds R SD East Asia The Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy Ed Markey D MA Mitt Romney R UT Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Jeanne Shaheen D NH Ron Johnson R WI Multilateral International Development Multilateral Institutions and International Economic Energy and Environmental Policy Chris Coons D DE Rob Portman R OH Near East South Asia Central Asia and Counterterrorism Chris Murphy D CT Todd Young R IN State Department and USAID Management International Operations and Bilateral International Development Ben Cardin D MD Bill Hagerty R TN Western Hemisphere Transnational Crime Civilian Security Democracy Human Rights and Global Women s Issues Tim Kaine D VA Marco Rubio R FL 116th Congress Edit Main article 116th United States Congress Majority MinorityJim Risch Idaho Chairman Marco Rubio Florida Ron Johnson Wisconsin Cory Gardner Colorado Todd Young Indiana John Barrasso Wyoming Rob Portman Ohio Rand Paul Kentucky Lindsey Graham South Carolina Mitt Romney Utah Ted Cruz Texas David Perdue Georgia Bob Menendez New Jersey Ranking Member Ben Cardin Maryland Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire Chris Coons Delaware Tom Udall New Mexico Chris Murphy Connecticut Tim Kaine Virginia Ed Markey Massachusetts Jeff Merkley Oregon Cory Booker New JerseySubcommittees Chair Ranking MemberAfrica and Global Health Policy Lindsey Graham R SC Tim Kaine D VA East Asia The Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy Cory Gardner R CO Ed Markey D MA Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Ron Johnson R WI Jeanne Shaheen D NH Near East South Asia Central Asia and Counterterrorism Mitt Romney R UT Chris Murphy D CT Multilateral International Development Multilateral Institutions and International Economic Energy and Environmental Policy Todd Young R IN Jeff Merkley D OR State Department and USAID Management International Operations and Bilateral International Development John Barrasso R WY Cory Booker D NJ Western Hemisphere Transnational Crime Civilian Security Democracy Human Rights and Global Women s Issues Marco Rubio R FL Ben Cardin D MD 115th Congress Edit Majority MinorityBob Corker Tennessee Chairman Jim Risch Idaho Marco Rubio Florida Ron Johnson Wisconsin Jeff Flake Arizona Cory Gardner Colorado Todd Young Indiana John Barrasso Wyoming Johnny Isakson Georgia Rob Portman Ohio Rand Paul Kentucky Bob Menendez New Jersey Ranking Member Ben Cardin Maryland Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire Chris Coons Delaware Tom Udall New Mexico Chris Murphy Connecticut Tim Kaine Virginia Ed Markey Massachusetts Jeff Merkley Oregon Cory Booker New JerseySubcommittees Chair Ranking MemberNear East South Asia Central Asia and Counterterrorism Jim Risch R ID Tim Kaine D VA Western Hemisphere Transnational Crime Civilian Security Democracy Human Rights and Global Women s Issues Marco Rubio R FL Ben Cardin D MD since February 6 2018Bob Menendez D NJ until February 6 2018Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Ron Johnson R WI Chris Murphy D CT Africa and Global Health Policy Jeff Flake R AZ Cory Booker D NJ East Asia The Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy Cory Gardner R CO Ed Markey D MA Multilateral International Development Multilateral Institutions and International Economic Energy and Environmental Policy Todd Young R IN Jeff Merkley D OR State Department and USAID Management International Operations and Bilateral International Development Johnny Isakson R GA Jeanne Shaheen D NH 114th Congress Edit Majority MinorityBob Corker Tennessee Chairman Jim Risch Idaho Marco Rubio Florida Ron Johnson Wisconsin Jeff Flake Arizona Cory Gardner Colorado David Perdue Georgia Johnny Isakson Georgia Rand Paul Kentucky Rob Portman Ohio John Barrasso Wyoming Ben Cardin Maryland Ranking Member 14 Barbara Boxer California Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire Chris Coons Delaware Tom Udall New Mexico Bob Menendez New Jersey Chris Murphy Connecticut Tim Kaine Virginia Ed Markey Massachusetts Jeff Merkley OregonSources 2015 Congressional Record Vol 161 Page S297 297 661 662 Subcommittee Chair Ranking MemberNear East South Asia Central Asia and Counterterrorism Jim Risch R Idaho Chris Murphy D Conn Western Hemisphere Transnational Crime Civilian Security Democracy Human Rights and Global Women s Issues Marco Rubio R Fla Barbara Boxer D Calif Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Ron Johnson R Wisc Jeanne Shaheen D N H Africa and Global Health Policy Jeff Flake R Ariz Ed Markey D Mass State Department and USAID Management International Operations and Bilateral International Development Rand Paul R Ky Barbara Boxer D Calif East Asia The Pacific and International Cybersecurity Policy Cory Gardner R Colo Ben Cardin D Md International Development Multilateral Institutions and International Economic Energy and Environmental Policy John Barrasso R Wyo Tom Udall D N M 113th Congress Edit Majority MinorityJohn Kerry Massachusetts Chairman until February 1 2013 Bob Menendez New Jersey Chairman from February 1 2013 Barbara Boxer California Ben Cardin Maryland Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire Chris Coons Delaware Bob Casey Pennsylvania until 2013 Dick Durbin Illinois Tom Udall New Mexico Chris Murphy Connecticut Tim Kaine Virginia Ed Markey Massachusetts from 2013 Bob Corker Tennessee Ranking Member Jim Risch Idaho Marco Rubio Florida Ron Johnson Wisconsin Jeff Flake Arizona John McCain Arizona John Barrasso Wyoming Rand Paul KentuckySources 2013 Congressional Record Vol 159 Page S297 297 661 662 Chris Murphy and another official from the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee inspecting burnt down printing press of Uthayan newspaper in Jaffna on December 7 2013 while E Saravanapavan the managing director of the newspaper explaining something to him Subcommittee Chair Ranking MemberInternational Operations and Organizations Human Rights Democracy and Global Women s Issues Barbara Boxer D CA Rand Paul R KY East Asian and Pacific Affairs Ben Cardin D MD Marco Rubio R FL African Affairs Chris Coons D DE Jeff Flake R AZ Western Hemisphere and Global Narcotics Affairs Tom Udall D NM John McCain R AZ European Affairs Chris Murphy D CT Ron Johnson R WI Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs Tim Kaine D VA Jim Risch R ID International Development and Foreign Assistance Economic Affairs and International Environmental Protection and Peace Corps Tim Kaine D VA until 2013Ed Markey D MA from 2013 John Barrasso R WY See also EditList of current United States Senate committeesNotes Edit Renamed from Committee on International Relations by the 110th Congress in January 2007 References Edit Committee History amp Rules United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations www foreign senate gov a b Committee History amp Rules United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations www foreign senate gov Retrieved January 22 2021 12 6 Committees American Government and Politics in the Information Age University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing edition 2016 This edition adapted from a work originally produced in 2011 by a publisher who has requested that it not receive attribution November 16 2016 retrieved January 22 2021 Hachey Thomas E Winter 1973 1974 American Profiles on Capitol Hill A Confidential Study for the British Foreign Office in 1943 PDF Wisconsin Magazine of History 57 2 141 153 JSTOR 4634869 Archived from the original PDF on October 21 2013 Joseph A Fry John Tyler Morgan s Southern Expansionism Diplomatic History 1985 9 4 pp 329 346 Roland Young Congressional Politics in the Second World War 1958 pp 168 96 James A Gazell Arthur H Vandenberg Internationalism and the United Nations Political Science Quarterly 1973 pp 375 394 in JSTOR Katherine Klinefelter The China Hearings America s Shifting Paradigm on China Congress amp the Presidency 2011 38 1 pp 60 76 Jacob K Javits Congress And Foreign Relations The Taiwan Relations Act Foreign Affairs 1981 60 1 pp 54 62 Robert David Johnson 2005 Congress and the Cold War Cambridge UO pp 253 54 ISBN 9781139447447 William A Link Righteous Warrior Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism 2008 S Res 30 118th Congress S Res 31 118th Congress Sen Menendez voluntarily stepped down as Ranking Member on 1 April 2015 after being indicted by the Justice Department Menendez Gives Up Foreign Relations PostFurther reading EditCarter Ralph G and James Scott eds Choosing to Lead Understanding Congressional Foreign Policy Entrepreneurs Duke University Press 2009 Crabb Cecil Van Meter and Pat M Holt Invitation to struggle Congress the president and foreign policy CQ Press 1992 Dahl Robert A Congress and Foreign Policy 1950 Farnsworth David Nelson The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations University of Illinois Press 1961 a topical survey of the committee s activity from 1947 to 1956 Frye Alton Gobble uns and foreign policy a review Journal of Conflict Resolution 1964 8 3 pp 314 321 Historiographical review of major books Gagnon Frederick Dynamic Men Vandenberg Fulbright Helms and the Activity of the Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Since 1945 online 2013 Gazell James A Arthur H Vandenberg Internationalism and the United Nations Political Science Quarterly 1973 375 394 in JSTOR Gould Lewis The Most Exclusive Club A History of the Modern United States Senate 2006 Hewes James E Jr Henry Cabot Lodge and the League of Nations Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1970 114 4 pp 245 255 Hitchens Harold L Influences of the Congressional Decision to Pass the Marshall Plan Western Political Science Quarterly 1968 21 1 pp 51 68 in JSTOR Jewell Malcolm E Senatorial Politics and Foreign Policy U of Kentucky Press 1962 Kaplan Lawrence S The Conversion of Senator Arthur H Vandenberg From Isolation to International Engagement University Press of Kentucky 2015 Link William A Righteous Warrior Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism 2008 McCormick James M Decision making in the foreign affairs and foreign relations committees in Randall B Ripley and James M Lindsay eds Congress resurgent foreign and defense policy on Capitol Hill University of Michigan press 1993 pp 115 153 Maguire Lori The US Congress and the politics of Afghanistan an analysis of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees during George W Bush s second term Cambridge Review of International Affairs 2013 26 2 pp 430 452 Shaw John T 2012 Richard G Lugar Statesman of the Senate Crafting Foreign Policy from Capitol Hill Indiana UP p 73 ISBN 978 0253007117 Robinson James A Congress and Foreign Policy Making 1962 statistical study of roll calls emphasizing the importance of the committee Spanier John and Joseph Nogee eds Congress the Presidency and American Foreign Policy Elsevier 2013 Warburg Gerald Felix Conflict and consensus The struggle between Congress and the president over foreign policymaking HarperCollins Publishers 1989 Woods Randall Bennett Fulbright A Biography Cambridge University Press 1995 Young Roland Congressional Politics in the Second World War 1958 pp 168 96Primary sources Edit Vandenberg Arthur Hendrick and Joe Alex Morris eds The private papers of Senator Vandenberg 1952 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee U S Senate Committee of Foreign Relations Official Website Archive Senate 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