WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman issued the following statement:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee South and Central Asia Subcommittee Chairman Bill Huizenga delivered opening remarks at a hearing titled "Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America".

We're here today because America's adversaries, China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, and others, are conducting covert influence campaigns to shape American thought and society through lies and censorship. These countries have one shared goal: to weaken the United States of America. For communist regimes, information warfare is a core pillar of their ideology. Joseph Stalin once stated that propagandists are, quote, "e...