Mike McCaul

In fact, over 40 percent of the people that are here illegally didn't cross the border illegally; they come on a visa, and they don't go home.

I was one of 83 Members of Congress, along with at least several people in this room, to urge that this House provide Prime Minister Modi with the highest honor we can provide a foreign leader, and that is an invitation to address a Joint…

Article 6 of the Genocide Convention, as we all know, makes very, very clear that the prosecution of individuals who have committed genocide is a treaty obligation under the Genocide Convention.

We cannot let these cuts stand.

It is very important that we keep New York safe from this very high-threat level that is out there.

Our city streets have become the front lines in the war against Islamist terror, yet the President proposes slashing funding to State and local first responders.

I want to welcome the mayor of New York, and also my fire chief, Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr, who is also the president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, and she's a friend of mine back home.

We have heard time and again that these grant programs have made a difference.

It would seem that either the President doesn't believe these threats exist or he doesn't care.

Proposing cuts to the programs that keep the homeland safe would be foolish in any case, but they are particularly outrageous at a time when our threat level is the highest it has been since 2001.

We certainly recognize and appreciate the role of the Committee in terms of oversight and in terms of ensuring accountability to the American taxpayers.

I will commend--Jeh Johnson called me to add Libya, Somalia, and Yemen to this list and I am----

But once the President signed it into law you can't just go back and either violate or rewrite it.

If I could use my time. Look, I wrote the law.

In my judgment, having played a part in that negotiation, it was in direct contradiction with the intent and the clear definition of the statute and the law.

Last December we passed the visa waiver program bill out of my committee. It passed overwhelmingly.

Israel's security comes first and foremost.

Yes, and in our bill that we passed, we have the defense of Federal networks act in there.

I think, you know, we can pass a lot of laws, but I think--I mean, I am interested to hear, what kind of technology software systems do you see on the horizon?

We know Mr. Snowden did great damage as a systems administrator.

I think the legislation we passed is helpful with information sharing, malicious codes.

If we want to disrupt their attacks, we must be vigilant and keep an eye toward the future.

In cyber space, we know all-too-well that delay can be disastrous.

I urge them to get it done.

America will not retreat; we will defend ourselves.