Mike McCaul

We have your backs. We are committed to giving you the tools to fight terror.

The threat environment is as high as we have ever seen it, especially from radical Islamist terrorists.

We are still searching for answers in this investigation, and I appreciate NYPD Deputy Commissioner Miller being here today to update us on the case.

Complacency is not an option. Terrorists are threatening American lives, livelihoods, and our way of life.

There is a reason why conducting large transactions in cash with this type of regime is really bad policy.

The President plans to set the refugee ceiling for next year at 110,000, which would be an increase of 30 percent.

I am troubled by what the administration had announced previously about accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees.

We passed a bipartisan bill in the House to put a pause in the program and then have certification at the highest levels.

My final question, going back to Mr. McAleenan. In ISIS's latest publication, Dabiq magazine, they talk about smuggling a Pakistan nuclear device into this hemisphere and across the U.S.-Mexico border.

We can assure--and something that was actually corroborated by Director Comey, by the director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, by the director of national intelligence, that the vetting process that we undertake is the highest…

We still have an obligation to those victims and to their families, and I believe the best way to honor their memory is to keep our pledge by doing whatever we can to stop terror from reaching American shores.

I think the concern at the time was when the director of the FBI testified before this committee that we can query, in his words, until the cows home if you don't have the databases to vet them against.

We know that the Democratic nominee, Mrs. Clinton, has said that she would like to see the number of Syrian refugees accepted into the United States increase from the 10,000 that we have already let into the United States to 65,000 Syrian…

This is one of our most urgent National security challenges.

So the burden falls on you, our front-line defenders, to identify these fanatics and shut down any pathway they can use to slip into our country.

While the agreement to allow federal air marshals on-board flights between the United States and Cuba is a positive step, the American people should have grave concerns about the level of security currently in place at any foreign airport…

I do, and hope that the administration will really be very strong because I think now is the time to draw that line in the sand that says we're not kidding.

I thought the idea of saying enforced to the least extent possible was a very strong sense of we want more.

I plan on initiating a letter to the Secretary of State, taking many of your comments today.

If Nico and the other abducted American children aren't brought home then we should just simply revoke Brazil's benefits under this program.

The importance of MOUs. If they're entered into in good faith and robustly carried out, especially by our side, they'll work.

Japan needs to really be on the list. I don't know how they didn't qualify.

I plan on having another hearing--hearings, and I'm never going to stop as long as God gives me breath.

The prospect of another attack by a self-radicalized actor, someone inspired by a terrorist organization is the thing that most keeps me up at night.

The past month we witnessed 4 major terrorist attacks, in 4 weeks, in 4 countries, including the deadliest terrorist attack on the United States homeland since 9/11.