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The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is a standing subcommittee within the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It was previously known as the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight. Human Rights issues are now under the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights.
The subcommittee is one of two primary subcommittee with what the committee calls "functional jurisdiction" (the Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights Subcommittee also enjoys functional jurisdiction, but is primarily a "regional subcommittee"). The functional jurisdiction of the subcommittee allows to provide oversight and conduct investigations or any and all matters within the jurisdiction of the Full Committee, with concurrence of the chairman. [1]
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