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Mike McCaul

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Michael Thomas McCaul is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 10th congressional district since 2005. A member of the Republican Party, he has been active in various legislative efforts, particularly focusing on national security and foreign policy. McCaul has played a significant role in discussions surrounding U.S. relations with countries like Ukraine and Russia, often emphasizing the importance of NATO and the need for a strong response to aggression.

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Dec 14, 2011

This bill is not designed to hurt Mexico, but rather help Mexico.

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Dec 14, 2011

These drug cartels represent a threat to the viability of the Mexican state and national democracy.

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Dec 14, 2011

No political party should remain silent about it.

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Dec 14, 2011

I support this bill, because it stands up to the dictatorship of Hugo Chavez and stands with freedom and democracy in Venezuela.

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Dec 5, 2011

I think it provides clarity and guidance as to who should be in charge.

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Dec 5, 2011

I tend to disagree with that assessment, because as you mentioned, civilian control is important here.

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Dec 5, 2011

I personally think it should be DHS.

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Nov 14, 2011

I think a visit to the Joint Task Force North, which seems to be the plug-in between the DoD and the Southwest Border and DHS, would be very productive.

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Nov 14, 2011

What are we going to do with the billions of dollars of assets, which includes technology?

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Nov 14, 2011

the technologies that Representative McCaul and Ranking Member Cuellar and I went and saw at Laredo were part of one of those operations.

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Nov 14, 2011

This is something that we certainly want to look at as to how we can do that.

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Nov 14, 2011

If we secure the land borders and the maritime borders people will...

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Oct 25, 2011

The Qods should be designated as a foreign terrorist organization. I think that would be helpful.

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Oct 25, 2011

If every 6 months we think they are about to get a bomb and they do not... that is a level of victory, but it is not a policy.

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Oct 25, 2011

I agree with you that we have had a timid response to Iran since 1979.

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Oct 25, 2011

I hope today to gain new insights into these and other challenges in the hopes we can move forward, building a strategy for dealing with Iran that is both effective and responsible.

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Oct 25, 2011

The Iranian government is a threat to the international community, building weapons of mass destruction.

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Oct 25, 2011

I believe that Iran is intent in attacking us in our homeland.

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Oct 25, 2011

I do not think anybody wants to go to war with Iran. But I do think we need a tougher response.

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Oct 16, 2011

Let me say thank you for your efforts on behalf of the State of Texas. I think the response at the highest levels of the State and the volunteer fire departments was really phenomenal, and so thank you for that.

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Oct 16, 2011

An emergency should be taken care of instead of having a Washington debate as to how we pay for this.

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Oct 16, 2011

Now, this is something the Governor's office, you know, I think on nine separate occasions had requested a Federal disaster declaration.

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Oct 16, 2011

we did pass, you know, a short-term continuing resolution, which does fund FEMA. It's a clean funding bill, which I supported, particularly given what's happened in the State of Texas.

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Oct 16, 2011

I think we--I just think we could have had more.

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