Washington, DC – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s last State of the Union Address: “For seven years, President Obama has focused more on befriending our enemies than helping our allies. And the results have been increasingly dangerous to our nation. ISIS, Iran, and the North Korean regime are on a roll, and this administration is getting rolled. “Tonight the president could have used his address to change cou... Read more

Two from O.C. among Congress' 'most effective' Orange County Reps. Ed Royce and Darrell Issa were among the five most effective Republicans in the 2013-2014 session -- the most recent session completed -- according to a study published on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. The ranking is based on something called Legislative Effectiveness Scores, which take into account how successful each lawmaker is in moving bills they sponsored and how substantial those bills are. Issa, the Vista congre... Read more

These are the 10 most effective lawmakers in the U.S. Congress Public approval of Congress is near historic lows. Journalists, scholars, and presidential candidates regularly express frustration with Congress’s inability to get anything done. So which members of the U.S. House are skilled at overcoming gridlock and successfully making laws? Building on our existing research on legislative effectiveness in the United States Congress, we have updated our Legislative Effectiveness Scores (LES) to i... Read more

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued this statement following today’s announcement by the FBI that they are now investigating the shooting in San Bernardino as an act of terrorism: “We now have yet another case of radicalization fueled by the internet and social media – a method that terrorists have exploited for years. When is this administration going to wake up? If we're going to keep the American people safe, the administration must put forward the broad and aggres... Read more

U.S. Representative Ed Royce (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew and United States Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman urging them to move forward on a covered agreement with the European Union regarding prudential measures related to the business of insurance or reinsurance. In the letter, Chairman Royce wrote: “The time is now for the Department of T... Read more

Today, U.S. Representative Ed Royce (R-Calif.) questioned National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) President-elect John Huff and Federal Insurance Office (FIO) Director Michael McRaith on U.S.-EU covered agreement and cyberterrorism insurance at a Housing and Insurance Subcommittee hearing entitled “The Impact of Domestic Regulatory Standards on the U.S. Insurance Market." “You mentioned that 32 jurisdictions have now passed legislation implementing the NAIC model reinsurance colla... Read more

When the House of Representatives and the Senate return to work in Washington on Tuesday, all of the legislators representing the Inland Empire have something in common: None of them have had any bills signed into law this year. That’s not surprising, according to Marcia Godwin, an associate professor of public administration at the University of La Verne. “Increasingly, you have omnibus bills, so being the sponsor of a significant number of bills happens less and less,” she said. “Your influenc... Read more

U.S. Representative Ed Royce (R-Fullerton), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the renewed possibility of the selection of Los Angeles as the United States bid city for the 2024 Summer Olympics: “Los Angeles is a proven host of the Olympics and has the infrastructure necessary to host a successful Games that will put our nation’s best foot forward. With the opening this past week of the Special Olympics World Games, we’ve witnessed the spirit of ... Read more

Yesterday, U.S. Representative Ed Royce (R-Calif.) questioned witnesses on progress made by regulators instituting a cross-border resolution framework during the House Financial Services Committee hearing entitled “Ending ‘Too Big to Fail’: What is the Proper Role of Capital and Liquidity?” "The need for cross-border resolution of compromised financial institutions, I think, was made pretty painfully apparent during the ‘08 global financial crisis. Rightfully, cross-border resolution is today at... Read more

The memory is painful enough that, seven decades after the fact, Sook Jung Lee trembled while talking about it. Her lips shook. Her brown eyes glistened. She reached for my hand with both of hers. Lee, 81, of Fullerton needed to hold on to someone because she hasn’t been able to let go of what has troubled her since she was a little girl growing up in Korea and was close with a former comfort woman. “I’m here today because I remember my baby sitter,” Lee said Sunday. “She told me her story. It’s... Read more