U.S. Representative Ed Royce

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The goal of this blog is to inform and bring your attention to interesting items that catch my eye. As many of you know, I serve as the Chairman of the Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee. So there is a lot to keep track of. I'll try and keep it to material that is free and unique - so you'll keep coming back. I hope you find it interesting.

 

 

• Unfortunate, but an Accident? May 9, 2012  - Sadly, fatal car accidents happen every day. But it's not every day that an IAEA nuclear inspector is killed in a car accident in Iran. Nothing to see here, keep traffic moving, no rubbernecking… The official Iranian news agency says the South Korean inspector died when his car overturned near a rea... More

• Blind trust…??? May 2, 2012  - The following blog by Rep. Ed Royce appeared in The Hill's Congress Blog: Top U.S. officials – including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – are in Beijing this week for the latest installment of the "strategic and economic dialogue." With Iran, North Korea, trade – and now an escaped blind human r... More

• Three Cheers! Apr 26, 2012  - News this morning that an international court has convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of wars crimes for his brutal atrocities in neighboring Sierra Leone. It was a longtime coming. My involvement with his case dates back to 1997, when I became chairman of the Africa Subcommittee. Ove... More

• Old War, New War Apr 25, 2012  - I've followed the crisis in Sudan for years, chairing many hearings, working with activist groups representing the millions of Americans concerned over the suffering there that began decades ago. Push the panic button. Recent fighting between Sudan and South Sudan makes it look like the peace agreem... More

• "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Apr 19, 2012  - Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner is doing her best Hugo Chavez impression. This week she is nationalizing oil company YPF by expropriating – essentially stealing – the 51 percent of shares owned by Repsol. The Spanish company, that depends on its Argentine operations for over half its output,... More

• Launch a Policy Change Apr 12, 2012  - Any day now, North Korea will launch a three-stage rocket, advancing its ballistic missile technology. Coupled with its growing nuclear program, the regime of newly empowered Kim Jong-un is a growing menace. So what to do? The Obama Administration is talking about going to the U.N. – to increasingly... More

• WANTED: Hafiz Mohammad Saeed Apr 5, 2012  - This week it was announced that the U.S. is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that would help nab Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, head of the Pakistan-based terrorist group Laskar-e-Tayyiba (“Army of the Pure”). Saeed masterminded the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, which killed 166 ... More

• Two Terms and Out Apr 4, 2012  - Senegal swore-in a new president, Macky Sall, this week. It didn't come easily. The only West African country that has never had a coup, Senegal has benefitted from relatively good governments. Incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade was severely testing that legacy though. Limited to two-terms, he pushe... More

• Wield the Human Rights Club Mar 29, 2012  - Yesterday the Foreign Affairs Committee approved renewing the 2004 North Korean Human Rights Act. It stems from the White House's indifference to North Koreans' suffering. It has a security hook too. North Koreans are the most politically repressed in the world. Worse, 200,000 are doomed in gulags –... More

• “Not Even Stalin Did That” Mar 22, 2012  - The House Foreign Affairs Committee met yesterday on the heels of the tainted Russian election that put Vladimir Putin back in power. (He never left.) A top observer characterized Russia’s leadership as "corrupt, rotten and rotting." A quarter to a third of the economy is lost to corruption, it's be... More