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McCaul: Senate Bill Spends Billions on ...

  • Border and Maritime Security

...long-term national strategy or required outcomes. By not including a 90% apprehension requirement, it fails to guarantee progress, and instead borrows money we don’t have to fast-forward immigration reform. “To...

June 27, 2013

McCaul, Miller Border Security Results Act ...

  • Border and Maritime Security

...the border. This bill requires DHS to finally develop and implement a long-term national strategy to secure our borders using advanced technology that will allow us to see what we...

June 25, 2013

Dallas Morning News: Texan in House wins ...

  • Counterterrorism

...with the last chairman is stark. Rep. Peter King, a brash New Yorker displaced as head of the panel by his party’s term limits, had no qualms about blasting his...

May 12, 2013

McCaul Op-Ed: Solving the Border Security ...

  • Border and Maritime Security

...their claims. In fact, Napolitano has stopped using the widely accepted term of “operational control.” This was not because they had achieved it — it was precisely the opposite. A...

April 23, 2013

Meehan to Examine Cyber Threats at Subcommittee ...

  • Cybersecurity

...and particularly China, where a recent report from the cybersecurity firm Mandiant made global headlines after tracing a string of cyber attacks to a unit of the Chinese military. Tomorrow’s...

March 19, 2013

CQ: ICE: Sorry for the Confusion About Releases

  • Border and Maritime Security

...living under a short-term continuing resolution, but he apologized if the news came as a shock to Congress. “I regret that the timing of our releases caught some by surprise...

March 18, 2013

Week Ahead: Committee Schedule for March 18 - ...

  • Border and Maritime Security
  • Cybersecurity
  • DHS Management and Acquisitions
  • Science, Technology, Research and Development

...piece: how to measure border security outcomes.  Without a means to determine success or failure, there is no way to know if our border security efforts are worthwhile. “Making sure...

March 15, 2013

Hudson to Hold Subcommittee Hearing Tomorrow ...

  • Transportation Security

...focus off lower risk individuals, like the elderly and disabled children who already face enough obstacles.  Second, it gives TSA the opportunity to evolve its procedures and reduce its long-term...

March 13, 2013

Week Ahead: Committee Schedule for March 11 - 15

  • Cybersecurity
  • Transportation Security

...like the elderly and disabled children who already face enough obstacles.  Second, it gives TSA the opportunity to evolve its procedures and reduce its long-term operational costs.  Members will have...

March 8, 2013

CQ: McCaul Pushing for DHS Revamp on Border ...

  • Border and Maritime Security

...he hopes to impose on DHS. Under the chairman’s plan, DHS would have to give Congress a long-term analysis of where the United States is most vulnerable, “based off a...

February 13, 2013

Chairman McCaul Statement on Napolitano Remaining ...

  • DHS Management and Acquisitions

...second term. Chairman McCaul:  “The Department of Homeland Security faces many challenges in maintaining its ability to protect the American people.  From the threat of cyber attacks to securing our...

January 14, 2013

House Passes Homeland Security Legislation to ...

  • Border and Maritime Security
  • DHS Management and Acquisitions
  • Infrastructure Protection
  • Science, Technology, Research and Development

...became the de facto term of art that indicated how much or how little of the border the Border Patrol could effectively control.  But at last count, only 44% of...

November 28, 2012

Newday: King to give up Homeland Security ...

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...Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in which he asked to keep his chairmanship another term. But, he said, Boehner told him the only waiver to the term limit would be granted...

November 16, 2012

AP: Scandal widens in probe of top US general's ...

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...active duty, which she was not at the time she researched the Petraeus biography. The FBI concluded there was no security breach. Nevertheless, FBI agents conducted a search of Broadwell's...

November 13, 2012

Daily News: Chairman King OP/ED on CIA Director ...

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...in Benghazi, was highly anticipated. His testimony remains key to understanding that event and its aftermath, in which a White House coverup has been alleged. We need answers from David...

November 12, 2012

Washington Post: Lawmakers want probe of Petraeus ...

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...of one of the administration’s most respected and prominent figures came as President Obama is re­organizing his national security team for a second term. Petraeus was to have been a...

November 12, 2012

Bloomberg: Afghan Insider Attacks Complicate ...

  • Counterterrorism

...the mission is, what its purpose is, how we’ll know when it’s completed.” ‘Long Term’ At the White House news conference yesterday, Obama said that, “In the long term, we...

August 22, 2012

Subcommittee Chairman McCaul Issues Investigative ...

  • DHS Management and Acquisitions

...a long-term, transparent, and codified acquisitions process that integrates the S&T Directorate, the end user, and the technology developer, to ensure all acquisitions are made with the goals and requirements...

August 1, 2012

New York Times: As Islamists Gain Influence, ...

  • Counterterrorism

...a blind Egyptian sheik who is serving a life term, was “the kind of talk you hear on the street — not from the president of the country.” “We have...

July 10, 2012

CBS New York: Coast Guard: Stowaways Suspected In ...

  • Counterterrorism
  • Transportation Security

...been closed as a precaution while authorities continue to search the ship. “Obviously there is a concern about human life, but also, in the times in which we live, the...

June 27, 2012

King Statement on New Jersey Attorney General ...

  • Counterterrorism

...people of New Jersey.  “This finding of NYPD’s full compliance with the laws is simply the latest in the string of such findings, be they formal or informal.  President Obama’s...

May 24, 2012
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