Mike McCaul

China's inhumane treatment of the Uyghurs is completely dystopian and horrific.

Helping Taiwan maintain its sovereignty in the face of this onslaught demonstrates our commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Taiwan is a critical ally in the Pacific and ought to be a role model for other nations across the globe.

China fully intends to become the preeminent global power using tactics like hacking, cyber-attacks, intellectual property theft, and espionage toward its goals.

I want to thank Chairman Engel for his, as usual, bipartisan cooperation in working together with me and my staff to get the Turkey sanctions bill passed.

I want to thank my good friend from New Jersey, Mr. Smith, who has been a champion on this issue and for your years of hard work and unwavering support in getting this measure finally across the finish line.

The world must know that the Communist Party's crimes against its ethnic minority Muslims will not go unanswered.

For the first time in over 30 years, the House took action and passed a bill recognizing the historic fact that the Armenian Genocide took place.

I am disappointed that the Trump Administration has offered an inconsistent message on human rights and democratic values.

I commend the successful operation this weekend to take out ISIS leader al-Baghdadi, but I caution that the removal of one individual should not validate our current withdrawal strategy.

With the support of Congress and through the strategic efficient use of resources, we will continue to present the best of the American people to the people of the Middle East and North Africa.

I think the Russians and Assad and Iran are going to fill the vacuum. That is my opinion.

I hope the President takes that advice.

I was promised that we were not going to withdraw from Syria--that there would be a residual force to protect the homeland.

But if Turkey continues its destructive campaign, we will quickly pass new bipartisan legislation that will bring hard-hitting sanctions against Erdogan's government.

Last week, I was pleased to see a strong bipartisan majority of the House pass a resolution that I authored with Chairman Engel calling on Turkey to end this operation.

The only people who benefit from more violence and more chaos are America's adversaries Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad, the terror-sponsoring dictatorship in Iran, and Islamic extremists in the area and around the world.

What kind of signal does it send to the international community that the United States will turn our back on our allies who suffered so much?

I firmly believe we need a residual force in Syria to best continue counterterrorism operations so that we can protect the homeland.

This is a troubling moment in our history, a stunning defeat for the United States offered up willingly by a president whom I believe is doing serious damage to American leadership around the world.

So it is gone from 30 now to 10 kilometers so it is a smaller buffer zone?

We have a President who is acting on his impulses, and the policy of the United States right now is that Syria is not our problem.

Anyone who wants to assist Syria in protecting the Kurds is good with me--Russia, China, Napoleon Bonaparte.

But the President's claim that he is reducing the U.S. role in the Middle East is simply a lie and the American people see right through it.

And I would also like to ask you both about our relationship with Turkey. There is a lot of sentiment right now that we need to punish Turkey hard for what it did and I hate what Turkey did.