Mike McCaul

That is your administration's fault. I guess maybe it is the intel community's fault.

If we cannot see what's happening on the ground, we cannot see the threat.

Will you guarantee to this committee that we will get them out?

They will be executed. They do have a bull's eye on their back.

We had Americans that couldn't get out. We had interpreters that couldn't get through the perimeter of the Taliban.

On August 26, 13 American servicemen and women were brutally murdered by ISIS-K trying to help American citizens and our Afghan partners escape from the Taliban.

For weeks, our offices were flooded with requests to help people get out of Afghanistan, requests that were coming to us because the State Department failed to provide help.

This was an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. I never thought in my lifetime that I would see an unconditional surrender to the Taliban.

This is a national security threat as China moves in.

This is one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in American history.

Since the decision was made in May, I think it`s an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions. And I think the President -- 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…

This is going to be a stain on this president and his presidency.

We will stand with them as they bravely fight for freedom. Cuba libre.

What is happening in Cuba is all the proof we need that communism and socialism are bankrupted ideologies that can only lead to utter failure and human misery.

Cubans deserve liberty and all that it entails, and we must do everything in our power to fight with them for their freedom.

The idea that a protester will be sentenced to 20 years in prison for simply exercising what we--what is sacred in this country and it's the right to free speech.

Regime thugs are snatching innocent Cubans from their homes simply for calling for freedom.

Brave Cubans have woken up to the lies and propaganda fed to them by Fidel Castro and his cronies.

The people of Cuba were promised communism would work. They were told to sacrifice their freedoms and ambitions in exchange for a utopia of equality and world-class health care.

Since last Sunday, tens of thousands of brave Cubans from all around the country have protested the communist dictatorship that has repressed them for over 60 years.

When the dying communist regime breathes its last breath, when a sovereign republic takes its place, and when separated families are reunited in a free Cuba, that is liberty.

As the freest and most prosperous nation in the world, the United States must unequivocally stand with the Cuban people against the communist regime.

Holding the communist regime accountable for its repressive policies while supporting the people's quest for freedom and democracy is crucial.

We must demand action. This is a crisis that requires a bipartisan response.

The Cuban people have never experienced the kind of self-government and freedom that many Americans take for granted.