Washington, D.C. — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul issued the below statement following the Biden administration’s failure to grant the U.K. and Australia a defense trade exemption by the initial deadline set out by the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act in order to fully implement the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) security […]

Washington, D.C. — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), along with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) and Chairman Ben Cardin (D-MD), sent a letter to President Biden urgently requesting a determination on the designation of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces and its leader, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, for gross violations of internationally recognized […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul will join ABC’s “This Week” with Jonathan Karl this Sunday, April 21st.  “This Week” airs at 10:00amCT in Houston, at 9:00amCT in Austin and Waco/College Station, and at 9:00amET in Washington, D.C. Chairman McCaul will discuss the House Republican national security supplemental package and the latest […]

Washington, D.C. — Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul spoke at a House Rules Committee hearing in support of his bill H.R. 8038, the “21st Century Peace through Strength Act,”  which will serve as the fourth pillar of the House Republican national security supplemental package. In his remarks, Chairman McCaul underscored how America’s […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul introduced legislation that will serve as the fourth pillar of the House Republican national security supplemental package, the “21st Century Peace through Strength Act.” “In order to truly confront the generational threat posed by the unholy alliance of Russia, China, and Iran, we need […]

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul spoke on the House Floor in support of two bills: H.R. 4691, the Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act of 2023, and H.R. 6046, the Standing Against Houthi Aggression Act. H.R. 6046 would require the State Department to re-designate the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist […]

Washington, D.C. — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia Chairman Joe Wilson (R-SC), Subcommittee on Europe Chairman Thomas Kean Jr. (R-NJ), and Representative Keith Self (R-TX) co-led a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for a permanent end to sanctions […]

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) joined Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), and House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to discuss the importance of providing foreign assistance to America’s allies following an unprecedented attack by the […]

Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, The Hill ran an op-ed, authored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), criticizing the Biden administration’s decision to increase flights from China to the United States as the Chinese Communist Party increasingly takes more Americans hostage. Chairman McCaul highlighted the case of Mark Swidan, a Texan held hostage […]

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH), House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK), House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Defense Chairman Ken Calvert (R-CA), and House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, […]