By Eliot Chen

Republican Party
Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) 
Gallagher was one of the most prolific sponsors of China-related legislation in the previous Congress. In December, he co-sponsored a bill with China Select Committee ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi to ban social media platform TikTok. Gallagher is a Marine Corps veteran with a doctorate in international relations from Georgetown University. In an interview with The Wire, he cited the Trump administration’s hawkish deputy national security advisor Matthew Pottinger and Australian ex-journalist John Garnaut as influences on his views about China.
Priorities: Reducing economic dependence, pharmaceutical supply chains, outbound investment review, trade, intellectual property protection, weapons sales to Taiwan, U.S. university ties to China, data security, TikTok
Also on: House Intelligence Committee


Rob Wittman (R-Virginia)
Wittman is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. As ranking member of the subcommittee on seapower and projection forces in the previous Congress, he monitored the expansion of the People’s Liberation Army Navy and has advocated for greater U.S. investment in domestic shipbuilding. He is also outspoken on issues relating to energy and mineral security. 
Priorities: Military modernization, countering Chinese military aggression, energy and mineral supply chains
Also on: House Armed Services Committee (Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces), Natural Resources Committee


Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Missouri)
Rep. Luetkemeyer chairs the subcommittee on national security, illicit finance and international financial institutions. In February, he introduced a bill to ban the use of China’s central bank digital currency by U.S. licensed money services businesses, such as currency exchanges. Last year, he was responsible for pressing U.S. banking chief executives on whether they would cut ties with China if it invaded Taiwan.
Luetkemeyer’s office did not respond to several requests for comment.
Priorities: China’s economic influence, financial institutions
Also on: House Financial Services Committee (National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee)

Andy Barr (R-Kentucky) 
Rep. Barr is a senior member of the House Financial Services and Foreign Affairs Committees. In 2020, he led the Republican China Task Force, which investigated the origins of Covid-19. Barr was part of a congressional delegation that visited Taiwan shortly after then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit in August 2022.
Priorities: Intellectual property projections, inbound and outbound U.S.-China investment
Also on: House Financial Services Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee (Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation)

Dan Newhouse (R-Washington)
Rep. Newhouse recently co-sponsored a bill with Rep. Ashley Hinson that would ban foreign nationals linked to the CCP from buying American farmland. A third-generation farmer, he also sponsored legislation in the previous congress to make agricultural land currently owned by the PRC ineligible for farm subsidies.
Priorities: Protecting U.S. farmland, nearshoring supply chains
Also on: House Appropriations Committee

John Moolenaar (R-Michigan)
Rep. Moolenaar serves on multiple House Appropriations subcommittees relating to agriculture and rural development, labor and health, and financial services. His constituency is home to the site of a future factory to be operated by Gotion High Tech, a Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturer.
Priorities: Protecting U.S. farmland, intellectual property protection, countering Chinese military aggression
Also on: House Appropriations Committee

Darin LaHood (R-Illinois)
Background: Rep. LaHood has co-chaired the bipartisan U.S.-China Working Group since 2016, a long-running House group that educates members and staffers on U.S.-China relations. He helped craft a report by the House Intelligence Committee on the origins of Covid. The former federal prosecutor has also been involved in key legislation and deals including the Phase One Trade Agreement, TPP negotiations, and the CHIPS and Science Act. 
Priorities: U.S.-China trade, nearshoring supply chains, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, cyber security, Indo-Pacific alliances
Also on: House Intelligence Committee, Ways and Means Committee

Neal Dunn (R-Florida)
A former surgeon, Rep. Dunn has been outspoken about the U.S.’s dependence on China in its medical and pharmaceutical supply chains. 
Priorities: Medical/pharmaceutical supply chains
Also on: House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Jim Banks (R-Indiana) 
Rep. Banks was one of the most prolific sponsors of China-related legislation in the previous Congress. He has been vocal about ideological competition with China and proposed legislation to counter the CCP’s United Front Work Department and that would target U.S. universities’ China ties. Banks also introduced the Taiwan Weapons Export Act, which would fast-track the delivery of weapons to Taiwan.
Priorities: Countering United Front, U.S. university ties to Chinese entities, weapons sales to Taiwan, rebuilding the Navy, U.S. companies’ business with Chinese military-linked firms
Also on: House Education and Workforce Committee and Armed Services Committee (Subcommittee on Military Personnel)

Dusty Johnson (R-South Dakota)
Rep. Johnson has been vocal about protecting U.S. farmland and imposing restrictions on TikTok. In the previous Congress he introduced legislation to block the installation of TikTok on government devices, and also co-sponsored legislation to blacklist China and Russia from purchasing U.S. agricultural companies. 
Priorities: Protecting U.S. farmland, nearshoring supply chains, data security, TikTok
Also on: House Agriculture Committee, Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

Michelle Steel (R-California)
Rep. Steel is the only Asian-American Republican on the committee. She has introduced legislation to block the federal government from using supply chain technology linked to China and a bill that would make it easier to lend or lease weapons to Taiwan in the event of an invasion. She has also called for the U.S. and Taiwan to deepen its partnership to provide Chinese language education. Last year, her re-election campaign drew controversy after it aired a commercial claiming that her Democratic opponent, Taiwanese-American Jay Chen, is “perfect for communist China.”
Priorities: Weapons sales to Taiwan, nearshoring supply chains, data security, human rights
Also on: House Ways and Means Committee, Education and Workforce Committee

Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa)
Rep. Hinson sits on several subcommittees under the House Appropriations Committee, including agriculture, financial services, and homeland security. She recently co-sponsored a bill with Rep. Dan Newhouse to block the foreign nationals associated with the CCP from buying American farmland. 
Priorities: Outbound investment review, intellectual property protection, nearshoring supply chains
Also on: Appropriations Committee (Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, Financial Services and General Government, Homeland Security)

Carlos Gimenez (R-Florida)
Rep. Gimenez was born in Cuba and fled to the United States, and is outspoken about ideological competition with the CCP. He led lawmakers last year in penning a letter to the Biden Administration raising concerns about a Chinese manufacturer’s purchase of land close to a U.S. Air Force base in North Dakota. 
Priorities: Protecting U.S. farmland, medical/pharmaceutical supply chains
Also on: House Armed Services Committee, Committee on Homeland Security

Democratic Party
Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois)
Rep. Krishnamoorthi is the ranking member on the Select Committee. In the previous Congress he sponsored several pieces of China-related legislation, including a bill with Select Committee chair Rep. Gallagher to ban TikTok. Another bill he introduced last year to direct the Director of National Intelligence to assess China’s “gray zone activities,” such as disinformation campaigns, was included in the 2022 defense spending bill. Krishnamoorthi is the first South Asian-American to lead the minority party in a congressional committee, and has emphasized the need for the committee to avoid rhetoric that might worsen anti-Asian hate and violence.
Priorities: Data security, TikTok, disinformation, protecting intellectual property, Chinese investment in ports, preventing anti-Asian hate 
Also on: House Intelligence Committee, Oversight Committee (Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services)

Kathy Castor (D-Florida)
Castor is the ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight and investigations subcommittee, and previously chaired the House select committee on the climate crisis.
Priorities: China’s economic, human rights and technological aims, climate crisis
Also on: House Energy and Commerce Committee

André Carson (D-Indiana)
Rep. Carson is the first Muslim to serve on the House Intelligence Committee and has been outspoken about anti-Asian hate and racial profiling. Last year, he chaired the first open hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena in 50 years. 
Priorities: Nearshoring supply chains, reducing economic dependence on China, preventing anti-Asian hate 
Also on: House Intelligence Committee, Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts)
Rep. Moulton is a Marine Corps veteran who served as a top aide to General David Petraeus during the Iraq War. He co-chaired a task force with Rep. Jim Banks that published a report in 2020 recommending the U.S. commit to a defense strategy aimed at great power competition with China and Russia. In October, he led a bipartisan congressional delegation that visited Taiwan.
Priorities: Deterring Chinese military aggression, Indo-Pacific alliances
Also on: House Armed Services Committee, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Budget Committee

Ro Khanna (D-California)
Rep. Khanna is the ranking member on the House Armed Services subcommittee which oversees the Defense Department’s procurement of policies and programs related to AI, cybersecurity and IT. He recently authored an essay in Foreign Affairs outlining China’s role in America’s deindustrialization, and has called for the nearshoring of manufacturing. Khanna has emphasized the need to balance getting tough on China with condemning Anti-Asian racism and hate crimes. 
Priorities: Trade, nearshoring supply chains, Taiwan, preventing anti-Asian hate 
Also on: House Armed Services Committee (Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems)

Andy Kim (D-New Jersey)
Rep. Kim is a former diplomat who served in Afghanistan as a civilian adviser to Generals David Petraeus and John Allen and as a national security adviser in the Obama administration. He has been publicly skeptical of some of the committee’s actions, including the joint statement issued by committee chair Gallagher and ranking member Krishnamoorthi on the Chinese spy balloon.
Priorities: “Refrain[ing] from acting as if conflict is inevitable”
Also on: House Foreign Affairs Committee, Armed Services Committee

Mikie Sherrill (D-New Jersey)
Rep. Sherrill is a Navy veteran who served as a helicopter pilot and Russian policy officer. Last year, she and Rep. Gallagher participated in a wargame simulating a conflict with China over Taiwan hosted by the Center for a New American Security and broadcaster NBC. Sherrill also served on the House Armed Services Committee’s Defense Critical Supply Chain task force, which studied ways to strengthen the supply chain for materials necessary to national security. 
Priorities: Military modernization, nearshoring supply chains, human rights
Also on: House Armed Services Committee, Committee on Science, Space and Technology

Haley Stevens (D-Michigan)
As a member of the House science, space, and technology committee, Rep. Stevens was involved in the drafting of the CHIPS and Science Act, the multi-billion dollar bill enacted last year aimed at boosting America’s chipmaking capacity. She has been outspoken about how China’s trade practices have hurt American industry and the need to strengthen U.S. advanced manufacturing.
Priorities: Trade, nearshoring supply chains, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing
Also on: Education and Workforce Committee, Committee on Science, Space and Technology

Jake Auchincloss (D-Massachusetts)
Rep. Auchincloss is a second-term representative from Massachusetts. A Marine Corp veteran, he voted against increased spending on the U.S. defense budget in 2021 and 2022. He was an outspoken defender of the Biden Administration’s handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Priorities: Bipartisanship
Also on: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Ritchie Torres (D-New York)
Rep. Torres is a second-term representative from New York. 
Priorities: Managing U.S.-China tensions
Also on: House Financial Services Committee

Shontel Brown (D-Ohio)
Rep. Brown is a second-term representative from Ohio, and the only member of the Select Committee who voted against its creation in December. Brown is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, many of which voted against the creation of the committee over concerns about rising anti-Asian sentiment and hate crimes in the U.S.
Priorities: Bipartisanship, preventing anti-Asian hate
Also on: House Agriculture Committee, Oversight Committee

Republican Staff
Dave Hanke, Staff Director 
Hanke has worked in Congress in various national security staff positions, including the Senate Intelligence Committee and for Senator John Cornyn. He was the staff architect of bills including the 2018 bill which strengthened the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and a bill to strengthen America’s 5G infrastructure. Between 2019 and 2023 he was a partner at ArentFox Schiff, a law firm, where he advised clients on CFIUS issues, technology policy, supply chains, industrial policy and U.S.-China competition. 

Charles Morrison, Policy Director 
Morrison was previously Rep. Gallagher’s legislative director, overseeing the office’s national security agenda and coordinating its work on the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees, focusing on Indo-Pacific security and U.S.-China technological, economic and ideological competition. He previously worked at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, and in the private sector. 

Caroline Vik, Communications Director 
Vik was most recently co-founder and chief product officer of the New York Sun. She previously served in a number of roles in the Defense Department and National Security Council during the Trump Administration. Vik has also served as a policy advisor on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and on Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns. She began her career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Julissa Milligan Walsh, General Counsel 
Walsh most recently served as chief counsel to Senator Ben Sasse and chief Republican counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. She has also served as counselor to the chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency with oversight of the intelligence community’s surveillance and big data programs. Before that, Walsh was a visiting professor at the MIT/Boston University Technology Law Clinic and has represented technology companies in litigation, regulatory investigations, and internal investigations in private practice.

Democratic Staff
Note: Senior Democratic staff have yet to be finalized. This article will be updated as they are announced.
 

Eliot Chen is a Toronto-based staff writer at The Wire. Previously, he was a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Human Rights Initiative and MacroPolo. @eliotcxchen