Press Releases
BRIEFING—Vatican Diplomacy in an Age of Estrangement...
Apr 13, 2026Longworth House Office Building, Room 1334 Stream live here As states increasingly resort to coercion and military force as preferred instruments of statecraft, the Holy See instead responds to this tumultuous era by urging all […]
BRIEFING—Securing the Fortress Belt: The Military Im...
Apr 08, 2026Cannon House Office Building, Room 210 Stream live here Since the outbreak of war in the Donbas in 2014, Ukraine has invested heavily in fortifying the northwestern region of the […]
Bipartisan Helsinki Commission Leadership Issue Stat...
Mar 18, 2026WASHINGTON—U.S. Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Co-Chairman Representative Joe Wilson, R-S.C., Ranking Member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Ranking Member Representative Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., and Commissioner Senator Jeanne Shaheen, […]
BRIEFING—Nuclear Power and Nuclear Powers: Lessons f...
Mar 16, 2026Cannon House Office Building, Room 360 Stream live here Control and operation of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), has become a key inflection point […]
Chairman Wicker Welcomes Nomination of Darrell Owens...
Mar 10, 2026WASHINGTON—Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, today welcomed President Trump’s nomination of Darrell Owens as the U.S. ambassador to the Organization on Security and Cooperation in […]
HEARING—Responding to China’s Infiltration and Coerc...
Mar 04, 2026Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2247 Stream live here While U.S. allies in Europe have spent the past several years prioritizing responding to Russia’s aggression, they have allowed another authoritarian […]
Helsinki Commission and Ukraine Caucus Leadership Ma...
Feb 24, 2026WASHINGTON—Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Dick Durbin, (D-Ill.), and Representatives Joe Wilson (R-SC), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), and Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), leaders […]
BRIEFING—Georgian Dream’s Escalating Crackdown on Di...
Feb 11, 2026Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2358-A Streaming live here Since October 2024, Georgian Dream, Georgia’s ruling party, has plunged the country into its worst human rights crisis since independence. They […]
Ranking Member Cohen Condemns Sentencing of Hong Kon...
Feb 09, 2026WASHINGTON—Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Political Prisoners, strongly condemns the 20-year prison sentence handed to media tycoon and […]
Bipartisan Helsinki Commission Leadership Urge Depar...
Feb 06, 2026WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Roger Wicker (MS), Co-Chairman Representative Joe Wilson (SC-02), Ranking Member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), and Ranking Member Representative Steve Cohen (TN-09) and nine other […]
HEARING—Securing Syria’s Transformation by Diminishi...
Feb 03, 2026Cannon House Office Building, Room 360 Stream live here With the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria and its partners have a historic opportunity to degrade Russia’s ability to project force across […]
Bipartisan Helsinki Commission Leadership Ask Admini...
Jan 15, 2026WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Roger Wicker (MS), Co-Chairman Representative Joe Wilson (SC-02), Ranking Member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), and Ranking Member Representative Steve Cohen (TN-09) sent a letter […]