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February 4, 2010
Requires federal agencies to implement strategic plans to prevent attacks
February 1, 2010

"It took the President less than a week to waiver from the promises in his State of the Union address to lower taxes and cut the record deficit. Instead, his proposed budget increases spending to a record of $3.75trillion next year and more than doubles our nation’s debt over the next five years.

January 27, 2010

Statement by Congressman McCaul in response to President Obama's State of the Union Address:

January 27, 2010

State Department to McCaul: Father was not a credible enough source to revoke terror suspect’s visa

January 27, 2010

"The proposal to cancel the Constellation program has much broader implications than the planned return to the moon. Eliminating this vision for America’s manned space program will put us even further behind in our plans to replace the Space Shuttle at a time when other nations are already challenging our preeminence in space.

January 7, 2010

"We need to be more proactive and not reactive. The fact that the State Department issued a cable stating Abdulmutallab had been in contact with extremists in Yemen and did not act upon it by revoking his visa was an absolute failure. I am encouraged to see that the President has now directed the State Department to review its processes for issuing and revoking visas.

January 5, 2010

"We are dealing with a lack of information sharing on two fronts: within our intelligence community, and between the administration and Congress. It is unacceptable that our intelligence community had information that would have allowed us to disrupt the Christmas Day attack before it materialized, but failed to act on it. If this resulted from a procedural flaw we must correct it.