Mike McCaul

1.3 million gotaways over the course of the Biden administration.

The buck stops here.

The local ISIS affiliate--ISIS Khorasan Province, or ISIS-K--could carry out 'an external operation against U.S. or Western interests abroad in under 6 months with little to no warning.'

I desire peace, that is why I prepare for war.

We must work together to protect our homeland.

I worry that the terrorist threat landscape is not just worse, but much worse since the botched withdrawal.

ISIS-K is rapidly developing the ability to conduct external operations in Europe and Asia.

The disastrous withdrawal signaled American weakness and damaged our credibility on the world stage.

The administration's continuous denial and downplaying of what happened is an insult to the service members sitting here.

The message to the PRC is: we do not seek conflict and confrontation. What we seek is a rules-based order

Normalizing dictator Bashar Al-Assad is normalizing absolute inhumanity and depravity.

Congress should oversee the Administration's implementation of the Captagon Act, authored by Congressman French Hill.

Congressman Wilson sponsored in last year's NDAA prohibiting the U.S. Government from recognizing Assad as president of Syria.

Congress should explicitly block the Arab gas pipeline deal the Administration misguidedly endorsed.

Congress must also pass a bill to deter countries from normalizing relations with Assad.

Congress should also pass the No U.N. Aid for Assad Act introduced by you, Chairman Wilson.

They are not a reliable counterterrorism partner. So I would instead focus on, No. 1, continuing to apply sanctions pressure to the Taliban until they uphold their commitments under the Doha Agreement to break with terrorists.

The Biden administration inherited a chaotic withdrawal that was already in progress.

The security of the United States cannot be a partisan issue.

We must learn from the withdrawal and ensure that in the future, when the United States exits a foreign theater, we do so with adequate planning for all contingencies.

Thanks to you, al-Qaeda and ISIS are operating at a fraction of their prior strength.

The American veterans of the Afghanistan War who I speak with have a broad range of opinions about the decision to withdraw.

Further troubling is the fact that this administration has repeated the same mistakes we made 20 years ago.

Unfortunately, the disastrous withdrawal signaled American weakness and damaged our credibility on the world stage.

The administration released a report that I believe whitewashed and shamelessly shifted blame about the execution of deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in a very inaccurate form.