House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., and two other Republican lawmakers asked the Energy Department this week to clarify the status of its study on liquefied natural gas exports.
Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., introduced legislation last week that would block a new Treasury Department rule that would make investment advisers subject to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing requirements.
House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, urged the Biden administration Oct. 18 to give the Treasury and State departments additional resources, including personnel, to speed up implementation of the new sanctions authorities that were enacted into law almost six months ago.
Ten Republican lawmakers asked the Treasury Department Oct. 17 to explain why the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has apparently declined to review and block Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Gotion from building a plant near a military base in Michigan.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., asked the Government Accountability Office Oct. 15 to determine whether the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is adequately securing the information it collects through its new beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting rule.
Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Maria Salazar, R-Fla., introduced a bill Oct. 15 that would prohibit U.S. firms from doing certain business with Venezuela’s energy sector, including its state-owned oil company, until President Nicolas Maduro concedes he lost the July 28 election.
The leaders of the House Select Committee on China urged the Commerce Department Oct. 16 to restrict exports of U.S.-made semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) to Huawei's “clandestine network” of companies.
A bipartisan group of seven senators led by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., urged the Biden administration last week to speed up implementation of new Iran sanctions laws, including a measure aimed at curbing the country’s oil revenue.
House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders reacted differently to the sanctions the Biden administration announced this week against Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa, the procurement director of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia group, which is fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged the Biden administration late Oct. 7 to impose “robust” sanctions on the leaders of Sudan’s two warring parties for what his office called “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.”