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

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

Below is the transcription of Congressman Michael McCaul’s (R-TX) exchange during today’s Homeland Security Committee hearing regarding intelligence failures that led to the Christmas Day terror attack. McCaul is Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee. Bold highlightedmaterial includes visa issue.

Testifying:

"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.