Mike McCaul

The Goldman Act not only shines a light on a country's record through annual designation of countries showing a pattern of noncompliance, it holds countries accountable and hopefully incentivizes systemic reform.

The Goldman Act requires the State Department action under individual cases that have been pending for more than a year if the foreign government has not been taking adequate steps to resolve the case.

The State Department has chosen not to impose any sanctions on any of those nations found to have engaged in a 'pattern of noncompliance.'

ISIS is not 'contained,' as the President says. ISIS is expanding globally and is plotting aggressively.

H.R. 2285 was recently reported out of the Committee on Homeland Security and I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan bill.

I have introduced the bill H.R. 2285, the Prevent Trafficking in Cultural Properties Act, that would enhance coordination and training within the Department of Homeland Security to stop stolen antiquities from entering the United States.

A report that was produced with no public scrutiny or independent review of the methodologies, the information sources or findings is not independent.

Your report was privately commissioned and done in a closed process that was subject to little scrutiny.

I'm simply saying this process in my judgment was not fair as carried out.

To allow an agency to make a ruling on state-owned land--Alaska owns this land.

We expect agencies to deal with our citizens in a fair, open, transparent fashion, and to use the most fair process they can.

These reports will improve our oversight of this important effort.

I want to thank the bill's sponsor, Judge Poe, and his coauthor, Mr. Connolly, for their steadfast work and leadership.

I want to thank our ranking member, Mr. Engel, and the Africa Subcommittee Chairman Smith for his work on this.

This makes us very proud. But every year, brave Americans volunteer to be on call for this duty.

I sent a letter to the President of the United States requesting that the IRGC be placed on the foreign terrorist organization list because they are the terror arm of Iran.

I would be very careful in trusting them. But I will tell you, based on the Boston bombing experience, I learned that we have a common enemy, and that is the Jihadists.

I think if you could reach a political reconciliation, and perhaps even partition the Alawite from the rest of the country, that is a possibility.

Nothing, and I say again, nothing in China's deplorable record in 2014 warrants anything but a Tier 3 ranking.

I wrote the TVPA to allow flexibility and discernment in rewarding a country for making progress over their record from the year before.

I want to again raise how important it is for Congress to fix this. It is the only recommendation not fulfilled, as you know, by the 9/11 Commission recommendations.

We asked the question, 'Who is in charge?' when Ebola was breaking out, and the answer was, 'We don't really know.'

At our recent world-wide threats hearing, FBI Director James Comey indicated that the potential smuggling of a weapon of mass destruction into the Western Hemisphere is, in his opinion, a 'very serious threat.'

We know that terrorists are still dead-set on obtaining WMD devices to use in their attacks.

The threat from weapons of mass destruction may have faded from public view since 9/11, but the dangers have not diminished.