Mike McCaul

We must act on it now because failure to do that will jeopardize in the future the lives of other brave American men and women.

I cannot sit here on March 19th knowing what's going on in Ukraine now, knowing that we have an Article 5 responsibility.

If that is not an indication of a broken, broken policy and broken system, I do not know what it is.

The State Department should have been talking to us, and they were not.

That was total BS, and I would like to say the actual words, but I'm trying to not; I'm restraining myself.

Should we have gone after bin Laden in 2001 in that winter when we had him more or less from an intel standpoint? Yes. Should we have? I think yes.

I believe that accountability ensures mistakes in the past are not repeated.

I am in the process of drafting a tough sanctions bill that will mandate the Administration to decouple the U.S. and our allies from Rosatom.

We must get serious, and that is why I am holding today's hearing.

The sanctions against the Putin regime have not convinced him to end this gruesome war.

President Biden's sluggish policies have consistently prevented Ukraine's victory, given Putin room to breathe, and dragged out this conflict.

We cannot stand idly by while components of American maritime infrastructure could be weaponized against us.

Nearly 80 percent of the ship-to-shore cranes in our ports in the United States come from CPMC.

This piece of legislation is a testament to our commitment to ensuring that the backbone of our maritime infrastructure is not compromised.

I have witnessed first-hand the destructive power of communist regimes and have no interest in allowing the CCP to conduct industrial and economic espionage in our ports through their cranes.

They have no choice but to prepare to defend themselves, and we have made a commitment to help them defend themselves if the Talibs go the route of a military solution.

Our military is not meant for nation-building. It is meant to go and break things and impose our national will.

The core problem was not the DOHA agreement. It was a President who refused to enforce it.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a strategic blunder of monumental proportions.

I sent him, and asked that night, I asked for copies of the letters of the advice that he received to abandon the people of Afghanistan.

The global war on terrorism is not over. It is coming to America.

I, along with other Republican and Democrat Members of Congress, urged President Biden to uphold the conditions of the DOHA agreement.

We saw that on February 24th, 2022, when War Criminal Putin invaded Ukraine.

The Biden Administration unconditionally handed over Afghanistan to the Taliban terrorist organization with its refusal to enforce the DOHA agreement.

Let me be clear. Nigeria clearly meets the CPC standard under USCIRF, not only based on evidence that public reported but what should be reflected in the State Department's own reporting.