By Cong. Michael T. McCaul
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON DC Last Sunday I joined ABC This Week" to discuss the latest threats to the homeland including the arrest of the
Ohio man who had been training with al-Qaeda in Syria and returned home intent on carrying out a terrorist attack on American soil. I urge the Senate to pass the House legislation and send it to the Presidents so
our nation can be better protected from these dangerous threats.
In addition to the arrest in Ohio U.S. authorities were recently able to disrupt a Minnesota-based ISIS recruitment cell. Despite these arrests the implications of allowing the jihadi superhighway to remain open are dangerous.
This superhighway allows thousands of young people to travel between the West and the worlds deadliest terrorist sanctuaries where they can train and return home to carry out attacks. I wrote an op-ed for Fox News detailing how we shut it down once and for all.
I am proud to announce that this week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed my cybersecurity legislation by a vote of 355-63. The National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act (NCPA) is designed to prevent cyber criminals hacktivists and nation-states from targeting and stealing Americans private information.
It also protects U.S. companies intellectual property and defends our government and military from malicious attacks. I am proud that the House worked together to pass this pro-privacy pro-security legislation. I urge the Senate to pass this legislation and send it to the Presidents desk so our nation can be better protected from these dangerous threats.
Along with several of my colleagues I signed a bipartisan letter urging President Obama to lift the ban on U.S. exports of crude oil to Mexico. Doing so would help our economy and strengthen our national security by helping us along the path to North American energy independence.
You can
read the letter here and learn more about my legislation that would
lift all bans on crude oil exports here.
