Press Releases

Austin, TX – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the below statement in observance of the twelve-year anniversary of the murder of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jaime Zapata. In 2011, members of the Mexican cartel, Los Zetas, ambushed Agent Zapata and Former Special Agent Victor Avila, who served alongside Zapata and survived the attack. Avila remains committed to seeking justice for these heinous acts of crime and accountability for the murder of Agent Zapata. 

Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul joined both Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo and CBS' "Face the Nation" with Margaret Brennan to discuss the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) spy balloon, how the United States should be confronting the China challenge, oversight of the Biden administration, and the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security's (BIS) decision to add six companies to the Entity List after learning of their involvement with the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) spy balloon. BIS is a bureau within the Department of Commerce that is responsible for regulating the export of dual-use items – goods or technology that have both commercial and military applications. 

Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul will join both Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" and CBS' "Face the Nation" this Sunday, February 12th. 

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member James Risch released the following statement in response to the Biden administration's "general license" related to Syria. The move undermines longstanding U.S.

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement following Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's decision to pause the docking of Iranian warships in Brazil ahead of his meeting today with President Joe Biden. 

Washington, DC- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul's resolution, H.Res.104, condemning China over its use of a spy balloon violating U.S.

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Chairwoman Maria Salazar (R-FL) released the following statement on the news that 222 political prisoners in Nicaragua, including a U.S. citizen, have been released and are en route to the United States.