Mike McCaul

This should have been one of the busiest subcommittees in Congress and, yet, here we are with our first hearing to actually address the border security crisis.

We must do better. To start, legal access for enrollees must be meaningful, and not only exist on paper.

I do know President Biden said that he was going to put an end to Nord Stream 2 if there was an invasion.

I think engagement of Honduras is good. I think we need to be cautious, trust but verify.

So I understand why the Biden-Harris administration is investing so much effort in Honduras. We are going to have to work with Xiomara Castro for the next 4 years.

I think this underscores the need to have prosecutorial action to hold the law that we do have.

Hate crimes are unacceptable in any form or fashion.

You talked about CBP's Office of Field Operations. That it is the premier DHS component tasked with stemming the Nation's opioid epidemic, a crisis that continues to get worse.

This is a focus area.

We have an adversarial relationship with Russia but not an enemy.

There is an opportunity.

What we do not have is, you know, confidence, in terms of Russia's way ahead, you know, claiming all the way up to the North Pole as its expanded continental shelf.

What we are doing by not allowing our partners and allies to use the cleanest burning LNG in the world... is then pushing it to China and Russia, who will fill the void.

So we have seen this movie before in the East/South China Sea, and Russia has taken a chapter--and maybe they wrote the book on this.

So is Russia looking at the long game, that not today but at some point in the near future that the Northern Sea Route will become a viable corridor for the Asia European markets?

We need to know more about what the Administration is doing to bring home Mr. Vadell and the other Americans unlawfully incarcerated.

Make no mistake, Daniel Ortega is a dictator and an illegitimate President.

Thank you to Mr. Chairman Meeks and thank you to Ranking Member Mike McCaul and I yield back.

This bill underscores the commitment of Congress to assist victims, research the counter measures and, most importantly, to identify and hold responsible the parties accountable.

There must be, Mr. Chairman, serious, unambiguous consequences for attacking U.S. citizens.

I urge all of my colleagues to vote yes on this bill.

Changing this bipartisan bill will jeopardize its passage in its current form and it could weaken it.

To help deter future harm, Congress needs to call these incidents what they are--attacks.

We must find out who is behind these attacks and hold them responsible and we must reassure the people who serve our Nation overseas that we have their backs.

This bill would provide Taiwan with temporary NATO plus status alongside some of our Nation's greatest allies.