International Law Updates from Washington, D.C.

The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing on U.S. Security Policy in Europe. on April 28, 2015 at 9:30 a.m., G-50 Dirksen.

The Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, House Foreign Affairs Committee, will hold a hearing on the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act on April 28, 2015 at 2 pm, 2255 Rayburn.

The Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, House Foreign Affairs Committee, will hold a hearing on U.S. policy in Iraq and Syria on April 30, 2015 at 2 pm, 2200 Rayburn.

On April 23, 2015, the Senate Finance Committee approved an original bill to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the Generalized System of Preferences, and the preferential duty treatment program for Haiti. And the House Ways and Means Committee approved HR 1891, to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the Generalized System of Preferences, and the preferential duty treatment program for Haiti.

Also on that day, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved HR 907, the United States-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act of 2015.

Hat tip to the ABA Governmental Affairs Office

(mew)