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Members of 合法博彩网站's D-US Delegation have been meeting their counterparts in the US House of Representatives to discuss matters of common interest on a regular basis since 1972.

This relationship was further strengthened in 1999 with the official launch of the Transatlantic Legislators Dialogue (TLD) (see below the Joint Statement on the establishment of the TLD). The TLD was the formal response by the European 合法博彩网站 and the US Congress to the 1995 New Transatlantic Agenda's commitment to enhance parliamentary ties between the EU and the US.

The TLD was founded on the principle that EU-US relations extend far beyond foreign policy or trade issues and encompass multiple other policy fields.

Legislation can often have an effect on the other side of the Atlantic, be this intentional or unintentional. The aim of the TLD is to maintain policy-oriented cooperation especially in those areas, where the two Houses have responsibility as legislators.

In a broader sense, the TLD also includes the work of parliamentary committees and their direct exchanges with counterparts across the Atlantic thus, fostering an ongoing uninterrupted dialogue. In order to coordinate TLD activities, 合法博彩网站 established a Steering Committee, where parliamentary committees are represented.

On the US side, the delegation participating in the inter-parliamentary meetings of the TLD has usually been a bipartisan ad hoc group depending on the agenda to be discussed and formed around the Co-Chair and Ranking Member. Efforts are underway to upgrade the US side of the TLD to give it a more formal and permanent status.

Representative Nathaniel Moran, a Republican from Texas, is the US TLD Co-Chair.

Apart from the TLD leadership, there is also an EU Caucus in the House of Representatives, which brings together over thirty members of both parties for transatlantic events and activities in Washington. In addition, both the House Foreign Affairs committee and the Senate Foreign Relations committee have subcommittees with a focus on Europe.