The United States House Committee on Insular Affairs is a defunct committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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He served as chairman of the House Committee on Insular Affairs, which had jurisdiction over United States territories such as Puerto Rico and the Philippines, during the Sixty-ninth through Seventy-first Congresses.
He also served as chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs in 73rd and 74th Congress.
Rep. William Atkinson Jones, (D-Virginia), chair of the House Committee on Insular Affairs, and Sen. John Shafroth, (D-Colorado), chair of the Committee on Pacific Islands and Puerto Rico, sponsored the legislation which bears their names.