Kean appointed to serve on House Foreign Affairs Committee
“Now more than ever, we need strength to confront the many challenges that the United States and our allies face across the globe.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. (R-NJ) said Wednesday he was appointed to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee for the 118th Congress.
“Now more than ever, we need strength to confront the many challenges that the United States and our allies face across the globe. I look forward to working with Chairman McCaul and Committee members on both sides of the aisle to achieve our foreign policy goals and protect vital U.S. interests abroad,” Kean said.
“I am pleased the House Republican Steering Committee recommended Congressman Kean to the House Foreign Affairs Committee,” said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul. “I look forward to working with him to accomplish our foreign policy goals and protect America’s interests abroad,” Kean said.
While studying history at Dartmouth College, Rep. Kean participated in an exchange program which granted him the opportunity to travel to Budapest, Hungary, and the Soviet Union for four months in 1988.
Through his experiences in Eastern Europe, he received a firsthand perspective of the repercussions of government operating insufficiently by attempting to command and dictate the economy. The Berlin Wall was torn down just months after he returned to the United States. Rep. Kean previously served as a member of the New Jersey-Israel Commission while in the NJ State Senate.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs is the authorizing committee for matters related to United States foreign policy. The Committee considers legislation that impacts the diplomatic community, including the State Department, the Agency for International Development (USAID), the Peace Corps, the United Nations, and the enforcement of the Arms Export Control Act.
The Committee also has jurisdiction over matters that intersect with American foreign policy ranging from international aid relief, enforcement of human rights sanctions and standards, oversight of military deployments and presidential war powers, and international law and treaties.
