Mike McCaul

The burden that the American taxpayer is carrying these days is well more than what it should--what he or she should be carrying.

This resolution is about division. Reporting it our favorably is irresponsible and ignores the bipartisan oversight work this committee is conducting.

I also want to thank Chairman McCaul and his staff for working with us on this bill and to make sure that we are able to proceed in a bipartisan manner.

I intend to vote for this legislation on committee to allow it to continue to progress to a conference with the Senate.

We cannot offer the greatness of America to the rest of the world until we take care of our own domestic policy.

The Federal Government's job is to secure our borders, air, land, and sea. And unfortunately, that is not happening.

U.S. support is enduring, but it is not without the strings of accountability.

We must no longer allow the malign activities of this regime of the IRGC, of the Quds Force, and those who have actually resulted in the brutal murder of exactly who we're protecting right now, which is Mahsa Amini.

Every member on this committee understands the evil nature of Iran's Supreme Leader, a man who leads a corrupt, criminal theocracy that endangers the Iranian people, as well as the entire international community.

There is nothing compassionate, humane, or fair about what we are seeing from the Biden Administration's policies.

There must be costs associated with this behavior, and the United States is delivering those costs.

I oppose this measure, the political stunt at the heart of it, and any efforts from within this body to divide us at such a pivotal time.

The sponsors of this measure play directly into Putin's hands and jeopardize the very lives of those with whom we are standing.

Sadly, many of these migrants do not make the dangerous journey because it is so dangerous.

Some of the Chinese telecoms companies... are engaging in some of the same human rights abuses.

My bill, the Countering Untrusted Telecommunications Abroad Act, which was designed primarily, in all candor, to secure United States embassies abroad.

We probably have more power vis a vis China than any other nation in the world.

We have got to reclaim that.

The Chinese Communist Party, including their embassy, is just deny, deny, deny that any of this is happening.

There will be a special--particularly for the Wagner Group, a very special place in hell for them.

We stand with you in your very difficult task. But we are with you shoulder by shoulder.

No doubt in my mind that Putin is guilty, that we will be able to prove his guilt.

It is important for this committee to inform the American public about what is currently happening in Ukraine and to display that many war crimes are being committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.

So the question becomes how do we make everybody, not just Vladimir Putin, accountable for these crimes?

I do not associate myself for those who come in for a political stunt.