Advancing National Security Through Commercial Diplomacy

Committee on Foreign Affairs · February 25, 2026

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Call to order and opening purpose

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5:16 → 6:21(1m 5s)

Chair opens the Committee, leads the Pledge of Allegiance and states the hearings purpose: to review State Department progress on reorienting foreign policy around economic statecraft, securing critical minerals and energy supply chains away from China, and reinvigorating commercial diplomacy.

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House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing with Under Secretary Jacob Hellberg on the State Departments commercial diplomacy agenda, including the PAX silica coalition, critical-minerals and AI supply chains, and related trade and investment tools. Members pressed the under secretary on staffing, chip exports, ties between UAE firm G42 and private investments, and implementation of the new Forge/MP initiatives.

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