Mike McCaul

I want to thank my colleague and friend, the gentleman from Nebraska, Lee Terry, for testifying before us today.

One of the primary lessons from 9/11 is that only by working together can we detect and deter our enemies.

Congress has the ability and the obligation to help fix these problems.

We cannot allow turf battles to hinder us from developing the defenses necessary to prevent cyber attacks.

I have made it clear from the first day as Chairman in this Congress, that cybersecurity be the highest legislative priority in this Congress.

We have had de facto peace in Korea, unstable at times, but it has been the longest period of peace in the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea's objective is to get those troops out.

The end game for the United States and for South Korea should be to seek the emergence of a united, free, open, democratic Korea with its official seat of government in Seoul.

I have continued to call on the current administration to place North Korea back on the list for the sake of our national security.

I was vehemently against the Bush administration's decision to remove North Korea from the SST list.

I hope that China will not do what it has done in the past and agree to sanctions and just erode those sanctions so the sanctions really never take hold.

This is the only country in the world that manufactures and then trafficks in meth.

Such support to other state sponsors of terrorism, because I believe North Korea belongs on that list, should be more than enough for the United States to redesignate North Korea on that list.

The regime is endemically hostile to the United States and warrants watching.

We both view the North Korean regime as a threat and one that needs to be contained.

We did this once. In the fall of 2005, the Bush administration targeted the Macao-based Banco Delta Asia for its money laundering role.

We suspect that they have benefited from the nuclear tests.

The amount of money that we can save the American taxpayer by doing our oversight responsibilities appropriately would be far beyond the numbers we are looking at on these sheets.

If we can't do that, if we are hamstrung from a budgetary standpoint and we can't fulfill that mission, it is not the department not doing it; it is the Congress not fulfilling its mission.

I don't think we need turf wars after 9/11, particularly in the Congress.

They want to make a difference. They give their blood, sweat and tears to our Nation.

We save you as much as a thousand times what we cost you

I think the United States should pass a bill that allows for the expansion of designation of prohibitive activity.

It is important to realize that we have more options other than simply to rely on Beijing to do more.

Today we will look at the illicit activities that are underwriting North Korea's weapons programs.