Mike McCaul

I do not think we can start the healing process until we do have accountability.

And I find it ironic that some of the Democrat colleagues that I have here today say we shouldn't make this political.

We fought and we bled for 20 years to build an Afghan Special Operations Forces capacity.

There was no plan. There was no plan. And the plan was to leave the Taliban in charge of this evacuation, which led to the chaos and the bloodshed that ensued after that.

I agree with you, we have to get them the hell out.

I think where we are now is this moral injury that has been heaped upon, not just our veterans, but our Gold Star family members...

This was an abdication of the most basic duties of the United States Government--to protect Americans and leave no one behind.

There's going to be no circumstances where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy like in Vietnam.

A united voice is always better than a divided one because they love to see us divided along political lines.

I think when it comes to foreign policy, I always say it stops at the water's edge.

Our defense industrial base is broken.

I think the American people deserve to know from their elected Representatives what we are doing and engaging in foreign policy and how that impacts us here at home.

I haven't seen a threat to the European Continent or Pacific area, region since that time, since World War II.

We are witnessing right now the largest land invasion since World War II.

We are the voice of foreign policy for the House of Representatives.

I believe that the world is becoming a more dangerous place as--before our eyes.

We deal with issues of war and peace. We deal with issues regarding the AUMF, declarations of war.

I want to thank you for the opportunity to testify on the funding needs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs for this Congress.

We will allocate and spend money to help the people in China who China will not help, but in return we will also continue to give hundreds of billions of dollars in trade to China while they sponsor countries like Iran.

If another nation is in conjunction supporting that State sponsor of terror, does that not then also lean to them doing the same?

So what would you call then the Nation who actually helps to support and fund in a proxy utilization--what would that country then be? Would that not also be a State sponsor of terrorism?

We know exactly what they are doing with the human rights abuses against the Uyghur.

Competition does not equal conflict in our mind.

Despite the World Trade Organization membership China enjoys, China is neither a market economy nor a developing nation.

We believe that China has a responsibility to take steps to impede the flow of these precursor chemicals.