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Mission, Texas – This Saturday — while leading a bipartisan Congressional delegation (CODEL) to visit the Texas border and Mexico — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul will host a press conference to discuss the ongoing border crisis plaguing Texan communities, the CODEL members' first-hand experience at a Customs and Border Patrol processing facility, and their upcoming meetings with Mexican officials.
Date: Saturday, January 20th, 2024
Time: 4:00pmCT / 5:00pmET
McAllen, Texas – Starting today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) will be leading a congressional delegation (CODEL) to McAllen, Texas and Mexico to see the border crisis firsthand and meet with Mexican leaders. The bipartisan delegation includes Representatives Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Randy Weber (R-TX), Tony Gonzalez (R-TX), and Monica De La Cruz (R-TX).
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul questioned witnesses at a full committee hearing to address the flow of U.S. dollars to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul joined Speaker Johnson and other congressional leaders at the White House to discuss a supplemental package that would address border security and provide security assistance to Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine. There, he told the president substantive policy reforms to address the crisis at the southern border must be a part of any supplemental package.
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul delivered remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the flow of U.S. monies into the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) military-industrial complex. During his opening statement, Chairman McCaul highlighted the importance of restricting the outbound flow of money and national security-related technologies to the repressive CCP, which continues to undermine U.S. national security interests, surveil its own citizens, and commit serious human rights abuses within its own borders.
Washington, D.C. — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Subcommittee on Oversight & Accountability Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL), Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Chairman Christopher Smith (R-NJ), and Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter demanding answers to reports that Hamas is diverting food, fuel, and supplies from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and that the agency has failed to address or prevent these thefts.
Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has released the following statement in response to the Biden administration's failure to designate the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), which brings more impact and more penalties than the specially designated global terrorists (SDGT) designation. The Biden White House briefed the media before Congress on this designation, showing a real lack of seriousness in this administration's national security policy.
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Subcommittee on Indo-Pacific Chairwoman Young Kim (R-CA), and Subcommittee on Indo-Pacific Ranking Member Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) issued the following statement on Taiwan's election:
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Subcommittee on Africa Chairman John James (R-MI), and a group of lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding answers regarding the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria.
Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul delivered remarks at the Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia's hearing entitled, "Examining the Biden Administration's Afghanistan Policy Since the U.S.