Mike McCaul

I believe when the beheadings of the American journalists took place, it was a real wake-up call for the American people about the evil of ISIS or ISIL.

Mr. Chairman, let me just say you have taken an outsized role in providing leadership in the Congress in having the hearings on this very important outbreak.

During this administration, no less than three extremist sanctuaries have emerged or expanded--in Syria, Iraq, and Libya.

The threat of ISA to the American homeland is much--it is more existential than we are willing to acknowledge.

A chief concern of ours is the proliferation of terrorist safe havens around the world.

We look forward to your testimony here today, surveying the threat landscape and elaborating on how we are countering those set against us and our interests.

This group does not represent a legitimate state, but it is, rather, a cabal of butchers peddling a violent and perverted brand of Islam.

We might see terrorists reclaiming the territory from which they planned 9/11.

It should never have taken the beheading of two Americans for our Government to wake up the American people to this menace.

I support this resolution and I would like to yield to the principal sponsor of the legislation, Mr. Faleomavaega, for the purpose of making an opening statement.

H.R. 5063, the 'American Space Technology for Exploring Resource Opportunities in Deep Space Act' (ASTEROIDS Act), introduced by Representatives Bill Posey of Florida and Derek Kilmer of Washington is the first bill to address important…

If the Administration does not support planetary science, how can they claim to have serious interest in human space exploration?

Congress has made it clear, on a bipartisan and bicameral basis, that we value the planetary science community and the important work they do.

The largest concern is ISIS's recruitment of foreign fighters.

Today, ISIS is the biggest threat to the homeland.

Tomorrow, we will observe the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The vast majority of the Libyan people don't want that.

The solutions need to come organically from inside of Libya from the Libyan people

I find it more than alarming. I find it disturbing and reprehensible.

But I do take seriously that they continue to try to develop longer range missile technology and so forth and as they acquire and develop that technology, they really are a threat to not only our regional partners and allies, but Guam and…

Sanctions with a regime that does not seem to care about what happens to its people are very difficult and all indications suggest that the Kim regime is not taking the interest of the North Korean people at stake here.

When Panama rolled up the largest shipment of North Korean conventional weapons in July of last year on a Korean freighter trying to go through the Panama Canal, that was an indicator that the rest of the world gets the message.

Sanctions by the United States alone are very limited effectiveness.

Today Hamas is engaged in a similar murderous effort with its rocket attacks at Israeli communities, again provided by Iran, but in this case with very little success, thanks to Israel's Iron Dome Antimissile Defense System.

These killers must be brought to justice and we should be doing all we can to assist Israeli authorities to ensure that that happens.