Mike McCaul

I am offering an amendment to this bill to make it the policy of the United States to use its voice in the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, to advocate for Taiwan's participation in ICAO meetings and events.

We must authorize funds for the Countering People's Republic of China's Malign Influence Fund to position USAID and the State Department for strategic competition with China.

TikTok is a modern day Trojan horse of the CCP used to surveil and exploit Americans' personal information.

While the nation looked at the sky in disbelief as a spy balloon from the Chinese Communist Party's military traversed the continental U.S. gathering sensitive data and sending it back to the mother ship in Beijing, many Americans do not…

It is clear that the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China are our greatest geopolitical threat.

The PRC should not be preferenced as a developing country when the reality is it is now an upper income developed nation which has directed resources outward as well as militarily in order to threaten the global order.

It is unfortunate that despite our best efforts, it isn't. We want the State Department to be laser focused on the challenges posed by the PRC.

The U.S. should not be complicit in these abhorrent practices.

So this is the time for the United States, especially this Congress, to be very clear and very firm in reasserting our support for the right of the Taiwanese people to decide when and how and if they are going to manage their relationship…

I urge each of my colleagues to support this important bill and vote yes on the entire en bloc package which I wholeheartedly support.

Mr. Castro's timely bill, H.R. 406, reinforces the importance of diplomacy in our engagement in the Indo-Pacific.

I also support H. Res. 90 which condemns the unjust and arbitrary detention of Mark Swidan by the People's Republic of China and demand his immediate release.

This resolution not only condemns the CCP for their brazen violation of international law but also demands the CCP immediately release Mr. Swidan.

If we are seen as a weak nation, we will be treated as such.

I think it's dangerous not to pass this bill because if we don't and we allow TikTok to continue its surveillance in this country of Americans and particularly our children then we have not done our job on this committee.

It gives the president authority to sanction them and it gives him authority to ban TikTok.

We can do this the right way.

There's no need to rush this. We could have hearings and discuss this, and witnesses, and experts.

There is no question that Taiwan is under threat from the CCP.

We must act now to stop China's aggressive behavior, whether it be in our airspace against Taiwan and our allies or against the Uyghurs and other minority populations.

This is going to be a stain on this President, and his presidency. And I think he's going to have blood on his hands for what they did.

Please, let's have oversight, let's have the right type of oversight, let's not use language that diminishes public support for this effort.

A lot of us are in touch with Ukraine's own anti-corruption campaigners.

They are taking that money to train and equip young men and women who every single day on the front line are risking their lives and giving their lives for the cause of freedom.

But I do have concern with this phrase, and the phrase is blank check. Blank check means we're giving Ukraine billions of dollars, and they can go use it for whatever they want; we do not ask any questions.