Mike McCaul

Limiting arms sales to Saudi Arabia hurts our shared capacity to counter Iran, the world's leading State sponsor of terrorism.

Intimidation and violence by any government against peaceful dissent must be strongly condemned by responsible nations.

The killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist, was an outrageous and gruesome crime.

I think everyone here supports the goal of increasing diversity at the Department of State.

It underscores the reason why we cannot welcome today's Russian leadership into the G7 grouping.

Any actions against dissidents in the United States is unacceptable and must be punished.

The Chinese Communist Party is the greatest long-term national security threat to the interests of the United States of America.

I want to thank the administration for doing everything they have done to bring home Trevor, Austin, Majd, and all the Americans detained abroad.

This resolution will also send a strong message to the Putin regime that America will not stand idly by as Putin and his cronies hold U.S. citizens as political pawns.

Passing this resolution will show that we in the Congress are committing to standing with Trevor, Paula, and his entire family every day until we can finally bring Trevor home and give him back his future.

I just hope the next Congress can work as bipartisan as this one has, because if we do not, we do not get anything done.

I find that this is one of the most valuable things we have in the State Department to talk directly to the people in China who are oppressed every day.

I have been heading this China Task Force up for the last 6 months.

I do not want to see it destroyed or reduced by 80 percent because $20 million that Congress appropriated has essentially been impounded.

Here speaks a voice from America. Every day at this time, we will bring you the news of the war. The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth.

We are a separate and equal branch of government and, Mr. Chairman, this committee deserves the respect of a response.

I believe his actions damaged support during the height of unrest in Hong Kong and they are continuing to do so today in Belarus.

Mr. Pack has made clear in his short tenure that he meets none of those qualifications.

I would think on both sides of this aisle, both Democrat and Republican, that those are core values of this Nation is diversity inclusion.

The auditor put our national security at considerable risk.

It is hard to lead a department, the largest one in the U.S. Government, one of the largest, when you cannot even conduct an audit; right?

I think it is ironic, the timing of this hearing when just yesterday we had this historic Abraham Accord.

I believe Iran is our enemy, and their proxies, the Houthi rebels, are the enemy.

In my opinion, this is a game changer for the Middle East. It is a bad day for Iran.

I had the honor to be in attendance yesterday at the White House when these historic Abraham Accords were signed.