Mike McCaul

Stop using our service members as an excuse to send the taxpayer of some U.S. working citizen over to some other country.

I want to commend my dear friend, I wish he was staying with us, Mr. Yoho, for his probably one of the best bills ever passed out of this committee, the BUILD Act.

The Consulate in Houston just got closed yesterday, and the Chinese Communist Party has been doing this for decades.

They are a force to be reckoned with and I think if anything comes out of this experience, this twilight zone experience we are going through, it is the people are waking up to who the Chinese Communist Party are.

Unfortunately, the request also cuts key global health and humanitarian assistance resources.

The United States continues to be the global leader in foreign assistance spending, supporting economic, and providing food, shelter, and health resources for the most vulnerable populations.

I do think Congress should fully fund the DFC. The DFC, after all, does return on its investment.

This commitment builds on over two decades of U.S. investments of 140 billion in responding to infectious disease outbreaks and strengthening health systems.

I hope at some point we can get off the political messaging game and work together to fix the immigration loopholes that encourage parents to send their children on a dangerous and, often times, deadly trek to our border.

We must remember that for months, Congress refused to address the border crisis that precipitated these deaths.

If the Majority requested and then shared the human tissue samples of a deceased child just to advance a political narrative, it would mark an appalling new low for this committee.

I don't see any legitimate reason why this committee or any committee of Congress would need the human tissue samples from a deceased 8-year-old boy.

I hope we can cut through the politics during our questioning today, and I hope next time the Majority actually invites the Federal agency they are critiquing so we get all the facts.

I sent a letter with Adam Kinzinger saying this sends a bad message to NATO forces, to Putin, CENTCOM, AFRICOM.

If true, the administration, in my judgment, must take swift and serious action to hold the Putin regime accountable.

He has proven he just cannot be trusted and he certainly is not our friend.

As I have said time and time again--and I agree with the chairman that Vladimir Putin is not our friend, not a friend to the United States or our allies.

If it is important, he needs to be aware of it.

The new criminal offenses will no doubt be used as legal weapons against dissidents and send them to life prison.

The police continue to be unaccountable, and instead see their budget increased by 25 percent compared to last year.

We have to reckon with the reality that China itself has relegated One Country, Two Systems to the dust of history.

The legal firewall between two places has been utterly dismantled.

China's NPCSC has unilaterally imposed a national security law on Hong Kong, which I submit fundamentally breaches the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.

I believe that the Taliban in its peace negotiations with the United States have told us exactly what we want to hear.

Despite our destruction of the caliphate, ISIS is on the rebound in the Middle East, in Iraq and Syria.