Mike McCaul

This is not what the War Powers Resolution has ever meant and it should not be used this way now.

This resolution would set a very dangerous precedent.

I have a tremendous respect for the chair, but I must say this first markup is a departure from the strongly bipartisan cooperation that we have enjoyed on this committee.

We are going to vote probably out of this committee to take away the President's ability to use counterterrorism strategies in the Arabian Peninsula.

Most of the members of this committee are new. Most of the members of this committee have never sat through a classified briefing about what is really going on in Yemen.

When we take, if we take our material support away from Saudi Arabia, it is not like Saudi Arabia is going to quit executing the war.

Our only presence in Yemen is a counterterrorism presence against AQAP al-Qaida under a 2001 authorized use of military force.

The United States has key national-security interests in the Arabian Peninsula.

As we sit here today, we are seeing in real-time the fight for the future of Venezuela.

I think we are going to be looking at foreign adversary nation states, but I think the threat of radical Islamist terror is going to be focused in northern Africa and the Sahel.

But the threat hasn't completely gone away.

I think the good news is that in the last--well, in 2016, the threat from ISIS was extreme.

So we know that terrorist groups benefit from poor governance and instability, which is present in parts of Africa.

It is true, Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.

Since its inception, the program has provided lifesaving drugs to over 14 million people.

I agree with you, Ms. Van Susteren--they have been a bit feckless, powerless.

When you say what is going to happen if we do that with Burma, well, we've seen with the trade war that we have with the tariffs, with the soybeans, is that China just went someplace else.

I think we have a moral obligation here to do something and I think Congress has that authority--that we can issue sanctions.

It is a crime against humanity, and what I worry about is the role of China.

I believe, like every issue, it starts with awareness.

Traffickers are targeting our schools and preying on our kids through social media and apps on their phones.

Human trafficking is a despicable multi-billion dollar industry. It enslaves an estimated 25 million people world-wide, including more than 300,000 people in my home State of Texas--80,000 of whom are minors.

This was bipartisan legislation that I introduced. It provides resources to DHS to help deter, detect, and mitigate instances of human trafficking around the United States.

This has since led to the prosecution of hundreds--hundreds of on-line child predators.

I believe like every issue it starts with awareness.