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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.
I think it's outdated. The Stafford Act, which governs disaster response, recognizes that the States and local communities and not the Federal Government--I emphasize, not the Federal Government--have the primary responsibility to address…
The State of Texas remains to be a tinderbox, and I think it's very foreseeable, as it has been this past year, that we'll have many more fires, unfortunately.
An emergency should be taken care of instead of having a Washington debate as to how we pay for this.
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.
I think a lot of people were very angry and upset about that when they got that news.
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.
Let me echo your sentiments about the local volunteer firefighters. They really were the heroes of this story.
I don't know how they--how it survived the fire, but it certainly--it demonstrated a lot to me, that we are going to prevail.
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