McCaul, M Rep

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great personal wealth

meri ok

defacto 118th spox?

DISINFO FAIL

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GUK 9 26

Inside the US state department, critics are still attacking a shuttered office established to counter foreign propaganda. Now, some of its work is also being resumed

Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Sun 30 Aug 2026

A botched leak of purportedly explosive government files to a prominent conservative online personality was supposed to offer proof of what the Trump administration and its allies have long alleged: that a little-known office inside the US state department, created to fight foreign propaganda, had secretly become a tool for domestic censorship.

Two former high-ranking officials at the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a target of Republican ire that lost its funding in 2024 and was disbanded after Donald Trump’s return to office in 2025, say the documents show nothing of the kind.

Instead, they argue, the files are a symptom of a protracted and bitter political fight over an office that spent nearly a decade tracking and countering foreign influence operations, particularly from Russia, China and Iran.

Trump administration shutters US office countering foreign disinformation

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And the state department is now resuming some of this work in other parts of its operation, including plans – laid out in a proposal reviewed by the Guardian – to pay social media influencers across south-east Asia as part of an $11m campaign to counter Chinese propaganda.

Sarah Rogers, the state department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, provided the so-called “GEC files” to Jennica Pounds, a rightwing online data analyst known as DataRepublican – only for Pounds to claim earlier this month she was leaked the documents as part of a bid to “entrap” her.

Rogers, who denied this claim, then published the files herself, claiming officials inside the center “betrayed their stated mission”. The files included a 2022 GEC report on “gendered disinformation”, a flashpoint in the culture wars.

“These guys have consistently misrepresented what the GEC did, and this was a great example of that,” said Daniel Kimmage, who served as the center’s principal deputy coordinator and acting coordinator from its founding in 2017 until its complete dissolution in 2025. His own congressional testimony was included in the leaked files.

Kimmage and Carrie Goux, a Joe Biden appointee and the center’s former acting deputy coordinator, say nothing in the material shows the GEC, whose mandate was explicitly foreign-facing, ever turned its tools on Americans.

“If the smoking gun was a gendered disinformation report, that feels like they came up short,” Goux said. “There seems to be absolutely nothing here.”

Weaponization

The dispute is the latest chapter in a years-long campaign by conservatives to portray the GEC as part of a broader effort by the US government and technology companies to suppress rightwing speech.

Republican congressmen including Michael McCaul, former chair of the House foreign affairs committee, argued in a July 2024 letter that the GEC was “at best indifferent to, and at worst complicit in” stretching the definition of disinformation to “censor” conservative speech in the US.

Trump’s return to the presidency drew this view into the heart of the federal government. The center was abolished in 2025, and what remained of its work scattered across the state department.

Much of that Republican-led campaign centered on how the GEC had funded the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a UK-based non-profit that rates media outlets by how likely they are to spread disinformation, to help monitor propaganda in Asia. But in 2022 the GDI separately published its own study of the US media market that rated several conservative outlets, including Newsmax, One America News and the New York Post, as high-risk – a finding its critics have cited ever since as evidence that a foreign-facing office had funded a group meddling in domestic politics.

The question raised by the files leaked this month is narrower, however: whether they show the GEC itself ran a domestic censorship operation. Kimmage and Goux insist they do not.

Kimmage said his own congressional testimony, which Rogers included in the leak, had been selectively read. “If you look at the transcript, [the question was], ‘Does GEC take positions on US outlets?’ And I said, ‘No, it didn’t,’” he said.

Rogers “tried to twist that into something that it wasn’t”, according to Kimmage. “For people who talk a lot about weaponization of government, this seems a lot closer to the weaponization of government and psy-opping of the American people than anything that the emails from the Global Engagement Center show.”

‘False’ allegations

Pounds, the rightwing analyst, is not a neutral bystander. Days after the documents were released, she disclosed that she had been quietly working since July as a special government employee for the defense department.

On Friday, Pounds released a database to track US citizens in the Democratic Socialists of America. The Pentagon did not respond when asked whether the database is included in her scope of government work.

Both former senior officials, Kimmage and Goux, draw a sharp line between the accusations made by critics of the GEC and what the center actually did. “We were not ever looking at Americans,” Goux said. “We were looking at the foreign actors and what their [tactics, techniques and procedures] … are doing overseas.”

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The GEC “did what its congressional mandate charged it to do, which is to fight foreign [misinformation and] disinformation”, added Kimmage. “This allegation that it’s censoring Americans is false.”

During its almost decade-long existence, the center published eight detailed public reports on Russian and Chinese information operations and ran four major exposures of Russian disinformation campaigns – in Latin America, Africa and Moldova, and on the Kremlin-linked network RT.

Its largest such operation traced a Kremlin-backed effort called the “African Initiative”, which the center said had recruited local journalists, bloggers and public figures to spread conspiracy theories about US-funded health programs across the continent.

In January 2024, the GEC helped broker an international pact on countering foreign state disinformation that eventually drew more than two dozen government signatories, among them Moldova, Spain, Estonia, Poland and Finland – a framework its backers hoped other countries would use to build their own version of the office.

A 2022 inspector general review found the GEC “generally effective” at supporting counter-disinformation programs overall, while flagging weaknesses in its internal controls, contractor oversight and strategic planning. That record was enough to sustain bipartisan support: senators Rob Portman, a Republican, and Chris Murphy, a Democrat, repeatedly pushed to fund and strengthen the center, and its authorization survived multiple renewal fights before House Republicans, increasingly focused on the domestic-speech question, declined to extend it again in 2024.

That mandate cost roughly $61m per year. The GEC employed about 120 people before Congress declined to reauthorize it, letting the office lapse at the end of 2024. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, later folded what remained of its work into a new counter foreign information manipulation and interference office, framing the closure as an end to wasteful, censorious government overreach.

Trust exercise

Now, less than a year after the GEC shut down, a proposal reviewed by the Guardian shows the state department preparing to pay up to 30 online influencers across 11 countries in south-east Asia $2,500 apiece as part of an $11m, multi-year campaign to counter Chinese propaganda.

The project, which would be operated by the US Mission to ASEAN, has three parts: a $5m messaging campaign, a $3m program training influencers and journalists to counter Chinese propaganda, and a $3m trip bringing about 180 participants to studios in Washington and Houston “for intensive collaboration, studio production and first-hand engagement with US institutions and creators”.

The proposal’s planning materials describe the ideal recruit as starting from a “welcoming” position of what one document calls the “rejecting-affirming continuum”: someone not yet sold on the US, but not hostile either. As participants move through the accelerator, the materials say, exposure to evidence of US commitment in the region and training in spotting propaganda from China (which has reportedly invested billions of dollars in disinformation efforts globally) is meant to carry them toward the “affirming” end of that scale, publicly backing closer ties with Washington on trade, tech standards and the South China Sea.

The document cited the rightwing analyst and new Pentagon special government employee, Jennica Pounds, the DataRepublican, as an ideal model to seek out in other recruits abroad.

Contacted for comment, the state department declined to directly address questions about the documents released by Rogers, the influencer proposal, the department’s current foreign influence programs and whether other regions are being targeted as well.

A state department official said: “Undersecretary Rogers has been clear that the department will continue to confront censorship, anti-American propaganda and coercive influence directly while demonstrating the enduring advantages of freedom, accountability and open communication.”

Meanwhile, the office of policy, planning and resources for public diplomacy (R/PPR) was separately shopping for commercial help with a similar mission this spring. A government filing from May 2026 shows the R/PPR requesting information from vendors on software that can mine open-source data, map “adversarial propaganda influence networks” and detect deepfakes.

That apparent contradiction is not lost on the GEC’s former staff.

“Are they trying to re-create it? Probably,” Goux said. “But now they’re spending a lot more tax dollars doing that, trying to get contractors to do some of the stuff that we were doing.”

Goux put the broader cost in plainer terms still. “The US has lost their seat at the table to do that, and that’s unfortunate,” she said. “I hope we can gain it back, but we’re losing trust too, and that’s significant.”

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Even though he said he's willing to testify, House Republicans are still likely to vote in favor of holding one of President Joe Biden's Cabinet secretaries in contempt of Congress.

Politico reported Tuesday that Republicans are aiming to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt, claiming he is obstructing their duty to investigate the U.S. military's withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) accused Blinken of failing to comply with a subpoena issued on September 18 to testify today, while Blinken is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

“I wish we were not here today. However, Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought this upon himself,” McCaul said. “I take no joy in this procedure.”

READ MORE:['Cease fire now!' Blinken testimony repeatedly interrupted by protesters against military aid to Israel

In a letter to the House Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this week, Blinken emphasized that he was "willing to testify" but that his job as the United States' top diplomat required him to be at the United Nations. Blinken is expected to speak at the UNGA about the Biden administration's ongoing efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza and return hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, as well as about the United States' efforts to aid Ukraine in its war with Russia.

"I am profoundly disappointed you have once again chosen to send me a subpoena and threaten contempt, rather than engage with me and the department in a meaningful way to resolve this matter through the constitutionally-mandated accommodation process," Blinken wrote. "As I have made clear, I am willing to testify and have offered several reasonable alternatives to the dates unilaterally demanded by the Committee during which I am carrying out the President's important foreign policy objectives."

McCaul insisted that he made "numerous, good-faith" attempts to bring Blinken before the committee. However, Democrats disagreed with that characterization. Ranking member Gregory Meeks (D-New York) accused McCaul and other Republicans of orchestrating a "political stunt made for Fox News."

“That’s what this is: a political stunt, plain and simple,” Meeks told Politico. “Why is there suddenly a rush to hold this contempt vote when the secretary has made it clear time and time again that he’s willing to testify?”

READ MORE:**Idaho senator blasted for his 'nutters' questioning of Antony Blinken during Afghanistan hearing: 'Full-on Q'**

As the U.S. was winding down the war in Afghanistan and preparing to withdraw all troops from the war-torn nation, Taliban fighters killed 13 American service members in a bombing at the Kabul airport. Republicans have seized on the tragedy as a central point to argue that Biden's oversight was to blame, given that he had assumed the oath of office several months before the attack.

However, as Vice President Kamala Harris pointed out during her September debate with former President Donald Trump, the Biden administration was simply carrying out the peace plan that Trump and his then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo negotiated with the Taliban in 2020. That deal established the timeline for U.S. withdrawal, with all parties agreeing that the U.S. would withdraw from Afghanistan by May of 2021 after roughly 20 years of war.

Blinken is the third of Biden's cabinet secretaries to be pursued by House Republicans. The House GOP impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas earlier this year over the Biden administration's immigration policy, and held Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over his refusal to provide the GOP with audio of Biden's deposition with Department of Justice special counsel Robert Hur.

Click here to read Politico's report in full.

READ MORE:['That's false': Trump caught lying about Afghanistan withdrawal to families of slain veterans

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“ i want to be on the right side of history,” is what House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) told Puck News’ Julia Ioffe in a recent interview.

The Texas Republican spent much of the conversation expressing frustration towards his GOP colleagues' refusal to move on the bipartisan package passed by the Senate in February — which includes Ukrainian aid.

A self-described “Reagan Republican,” the Texas congressman told Ioffe he’s a strong supported of “freedom, democracy, human rights.”

READ MORE:[GOP strategist: 'Very feasible' Democrats will have House majority before election day

According to Ioffe, the “pressure” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has been getting from colleagues like McCaul “has resulted in Johnson’s inching closer to letting the House vote on the Senate aid package, provided he can dress it up in a way that would make it more attractive to his fellow Republicans: namely, through the inclusion of McCaul’s REPO for Ukrainians Act, which would allow the U.S. to redirect seized Russian assets to Ukraine; reversing Biden’s moratorium on new LNG terminals; and, in line with Trump’s demands from the sidelines, making part of the Ukraine aid a loan, rather than a grant.”

The Puck News Washington correspondent reports:

*As for making a portion of the aid a loan, it would apply only to the funds that go toward supporting the Ukrainian government’s budget—things like salaries for the soldiers and bureaucrats who keep the fight going and the state from collapsing. That is a tiny fraction of the $60 billion aid package. The vast majority is going to weapons and ultimately stays in the U.S. with U.S. manufacturers, creating U.S. jobs. Moreover, making the loan zero-interest and forgivable makes it palatable even to Ukrainians, who—as the Ukrainian ambassador told me the other day—understand that it’s a meaningless sweetener for Republicans, but if that’s what it takes to get the rest of the aid through, so be it.

“I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,” the Foreign Affairs Committee chair told Ioffe. “And I have to explain to them what’s at stake, why Ukraine is in our national security interest. By the way, you don’t like Communist China? Well, guess what? They’re aligned [with Russia], along with the Ayatollah. So when you explain it that way, they kind of start understanding it. And unlike 1939, we want to provide deterrence so that we don’t have to send anyone over, and we don’t want Article V invoked. Because the next thing the Russians will do is [attack] Moldova, Georgia, and then part of the Baltics. Or at least provoke a lot. So I just think it’s preventative. “

Referring to his far-right colleagues against supplying aid to Ukraine, McCaul added, “There’s a new wing of isolationism, and that takes you back again to the 1930s. That was not helpful. Now, I understood it—because World War I was very bloody, and Americans were like, “We don’t want to go over to save Europe again.” But had we been involved earlier and provided that deterrence, we could have saved a lot of blood and treasure.”

READ MORE:**McConnell rails against Johnson over Ukraine — again**

The GOP leader emphasized, “I just see so many parallels between then and what’s happening right now. And if we fail in this aid package and Putin does take Ukraine—and it won’t take him very long—then where will the United States be?”

*Ioffe's full interview with McCaul is available [here.]

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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX-10) 

Poor climate change voting record

Voted in support of the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 (H.R. 910), which relied on climate change denial to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions—additionally excluding carbon dioxide from the definition of "air pollutant"—as a means to prevent further global warming and harm to human health.

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On Sunday's edition of Face the Nation,United States Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said that he backs efforts to aid Ukraine while conceding that certain right-wing Republicans will never be convinced that doing so is a worthwhile endeavor.

"You voted in the last Congress to provide a lot of assistance to Ukraine, but this past week, uh, at least ten of your members, Republican members, introduced a bill called the Ukraine Fatigue Resolution to try to cut off aid. How hard is it going to be to have a Republican-led House continue to help Ukraine?" CBS moderator Margaret Brennen asked McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

"I still believe Margaret, there are many, uh, on both sides of the aisle, majority of the majorities in support of this. Uh, we have factions on the left and right that do not support Ukraine assistance and that will probably continue," McCaul said.

"This is a Republican bill," Brennan interjected.

READ MORE: 'The perils of leaded drinking water': Twitter roasts Marjorie Taylor Greene's spy balloon conspiracy theories

"Right? And I do think, uh, for me particularly, it's, uh, we have to educate, where has the money gone? Um, you know, the audits that are in place right now, there are four of them on Ukraine funding. Uh, and we have to explain why is Ukraine so important," McCaul continued. "You know, what happens in Ukraine impacts Taiwan and Chairman Xi, that China's aligned with Russia, Iran, and North Korea against freedom, democracy in the West. And um, you know, I, I think that's a debate we'll have, but I still feel very confident that we will give them the assistance they need. I'd like to see it faster so they can win this faster."

The conversation then turned to Congresspersons Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), who are among the clique of House Republicans who think that helping Ukraine is a waste of time and money.

"So you, you think Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, others who signed this need to be educated?" Brennan wondered about the aforementioned Ukraine Fatigue Resolution, which Greene and Gaetz both cosponsored along with ten of their colleagues.

"Uh, I, you know, look, we took Marjorie Taylor Greene, uh, in, into a briefing. Uh, she was satisfied, I thought, with what, uh, the controls have been put in place on the spinning. But I don't think that they will be, ever be con, uh, persuaded, uh, that this cause is something, uh, that they would support," McCaul replied. "I think they have this false dichotomy that somehow we can't, uh, Ukraine, you know, beat back, uh, the Russians who invaded their country, uh, and, and secure the border. Uh, we can do both. We're a great nation. Um, and the fact of the matter is, unfortunately, this administration has chosen not to secure the border. He can't even control and secure our airspace, now it looks like."

READ MORE: What Donald Trump KNEW About the Chinese Spy Balloon

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During a conversation about the mass shooting in Los Angles that took place late Saturday night and claimed at least ten lives, CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash called out at GOP lawmaker who attempted to brush off the need for new gun laws by pointing out gun violence in Chicago -- a favorite rightwing talking point.

Sitting down with McCaul to discuss what to expect now that Republicans have majority control of the House, Bash first asked about the latest gun-related bloodshed in California.

"I was a counter-terrorism federal prosecutor and I was chair of Homeland Security," the Texas Republican replied. "Chicago has probably some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, yet the highest murder rate. The way I look at it is we need the intelligence, we need information sharing, we need to connect the dots."

"Every one of these cases, and I guarantee you'll see it in this one as well, the shooter had warning signs along the way," he continued. "We just didn't respond or pick it up. In my judgment we can create a system. I introduced a bill that we can take published information on the internet, have an algorithm to stop the threat before it happens. That is a smart approach rather than violating Second Amendment rights. So, look, I hope we can get that passed -- we're seeing this movie way too many times."

"What about a red flag law? A federal red flag law?" Bash asked.

"In a way what i'm talking about are red flags," McCaul replied before adding, "Chicago, Illinois has red flags --"

"You keep bringing up Chicago, which I understand," the CNN host interjected before adding, "But the guns in Chicago come in from other places because there is a patchwork of laws across the country, there's no federal law."

'Right. Again, we stopped ---," he backtracked. "I saw it when I chaired Homeland, so many terror attacks because we got the threat information in advance and we stopped it. We can use the same formula here domestically, although it's a little different.The Constitution didn't apply overseas, but we can do that here and stop these threats before they happen."

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Nice try': GOP Congressman says Marjorie Taylor Greene has 'matured' since spreading 9/11 conspiracies

Brandon Gage

January 22, 2023

On Sunday's edition of This Week,United States Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) defended House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) for placing Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene...

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/tucker-carlson-2656992540/

Fox News' Tucker Carlson recently fired back at a Republican lawmaker who criticized his show as an "organ of Russian disinformation." On Friday, March 18, Carlson responded to Rep. Michael McCaul's (R-Texas) remarks by claiming the statements were "slander."

“In recent days, McCaul has told a number of people that this show is an organ of Russian disinformation,” Carlson said on his show this week. “In other words, not only are we wrong, which is fine, we are disloyal Americans. We’re doing the bidding of a foreign power. That is not fine. That is slander.”

He continued, "Unlike Michael McCaul, we are only and narrowly interested in the interests of our own country. That would be the United States, where we were born and where we plan to die. We don’t care what the Russian government says. We only care what the United States does and what our future looks like because we have children here.”

The Fox host also used the moment as an opportunity to attack President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

“Russian disinformation is also a well-worn Democratic Party talking point,” he claimed. “Joe Biden, for example, calls anything he doesn’t like Russian disinformation, has for years.”

Carlson went on to slam members of the Republican Party as he suggested that there isn't a distinct difference between both political parties.

“So you have to ask yourself, why are so many Republicans suddenly talking like Joe Biden?” he finished. “And the answer is, because on the big questions, the questions that matter, they agree with each other. And you should know that.”

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greening of:

If you had to guess which of Austin's four congressional members last year helped form something called theGreen Schools Caucus – devoted to pushing "the importance of healthy, environmentally friendly schools that promote learning and save school districts money" – who would you guess?

If you guessed Lloyd Doggett, you'd be wrong. The tree-hugging hippie in this case is Michael McCaul. If it shocks you that the second-term Republican, often described as "a rubber stamp for George W. Bush," would take up such a cause ... well, it probably should. To say major environmental groups do not look on McCaul favorably would be putting it mildly. The League of Conservation Vot­ers andEnvironment America both put out annual scorecards wherein they select what they feel are the major environmental votes before Congress and grade legislators up or down.According to the LCV, McCaul voted pro-environment only 7% of the time during his first term, and halfway into his second, he's only improved to 10%; EA scored him at 15%. (Doggett, by contrast, routinely scores in the upper 90% range and some years gets a perfect score.)

Be that as it may, the Green Schools Cauc­us work culminated earlier this month in the House passing House Resolution 3021, the 21st Century Green High-Perform­ing Public Schools Facili­ties Act. The bill, which now moves on to the Senate, directs the secretary of education to dole out grants and low-interest loans to local educational agencies for "construction, modernization, or repair" of public schools, including removal of environmental health hazards such as asbestos or lead paint and improving energy efficiency. McCaul was out of step with his party on the vote: He was one of only 27 Republicans (and the only one from Texas) to vote for passage, and all 164 "nay" votes came from the GOP.

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A financial boom among the most affluent lawmakers partly explains the increase. The most dramatic jump came from Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who reported a minimum net worth of at least $287 million — enough to vault him to the No. 1 ranking.

A number of family trusts and companies affiliated with McCaul’s spouse, Linda, were reported to be worth at least $50 million each in 2010, according to the lawmaker’s financial disclosure report. Linda McCaul is the daughter of Lowry Mays, the founder of the hugely successful radio broadcaster Clear Channel Communications.

The more than $213 million increase in McCaul’s net worth was by far the most reported by a lawmaker, though Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) notched an impressive gain of nearly $60 million, which solidified his position as the second wealthiest in Congress.

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_McCaul

Michael McCaul, a Republican, has represented the Tenth Congressional District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005. (map)

Record and controversies

General information about important bills and votes for can be found in Congresspedia's articles on legislation. You can add information you find on how Michael McCaul voted by clicking the "[edit]" link to the right and typing it in. Remember to cite your sources!

Iraq War

In late June 2007, Rep. McCaul, along with Reps. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), and Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.), issued a letter to President Bush, urging him to reconstitute the Iraq Study Group. The bipartisan group referred to a provision included in the Foreign Operations appropriations bill passed by the House to provide $1 million to the U.S. Institute for Peace to reestablish the Iraq Study Group. The members worried whether the President would sign the bill with that amendment included. Rep. Udall stated that allowing the group to update their report would give the President, Congress, and the public an independent perspective on the situation in Iraq to compare with the report due by General Petraeus in September.

Main article: Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008

For more information see the chart of U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War.

Environmental record

For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal

Green Energy Education Act

On June 5, 2007, the House considered the Green Energy Education Act (H.R.1716), sponsored by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), which would authorize higher education curriculum development and graduate training in advanced energy and green building technologies.^[1]^

The bill passed, 416-0.^[2]^

Main article: U.S. congressional action on climate change#Green Energy Education Act (H.R.1716)

Bio

McCaul was born January 14, 1962 in Dallas, Texas. He attained his B.S. from Trinity University in 1984 and his J.D. from St. Mary's University in 1987. He was a member of the Bush-Cheney transition team in 2000. He worked as an attorney and a federal prosecutor before running for the U.S. House in 2004. Lloyd Doggett originally held the post in District 10, but following redistricting, Doggett ran for Representative in District 25. McCaul easily won in the district with no Democratic opposition.

"As a federal prosecutor, McCaul fought public corruption and investigated the campaign finance scandal involving the People's Republic of China. He was the lead prosecutor in the federal case against Johnny Chung, a Taiwan-born businessman sentenced to probation and 3,000 hours of community service as part of a plea bargain for making nearly $30,000 in illegal contributions to Democrats, including $20,000 to the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign.

Chung donated nearly $400,000 to Democratic candidates and causes between 1994 and 1996, but the money was returned after questions arose about its legality. Chung admitted to using "straw donors" to funnel money to the Clinton-Gore campaign and then reimbursing them."[1]

Congressional career

2006 elections

In 2006, the Democrats nominated Ted Ankrum, and the Libertarian Party nominated Michael Badnarik to face Rehberg in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See U.S. congressional elections in 2006) [2] McCaul retained his seat.

Money in politics

This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases. cid=N00026460&cycle=2006

• Revolving door profile for Michael McCaul from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
• 2006 privately funded travel profile for Michael McCaul from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.
• Personal finance profile for Michael McCaul from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website.

Committees and Affiliations

Committees

• House Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations
  • Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere

• House Committee on Homeland Security
  • Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterroris
  • Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology
  • Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight

• House Committee on Science and Technology
  • Subcommittee on Environment and Energy
  • Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight

• House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)

• House Committee on Homeland Security
  • Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness Science and Technology
  • Subcommittee on Investigations - Chair
  • Subcommittee Management Integration and Oversight

• House Committee on International Relations
  • Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation
  • Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere

• House Committee on Science
  • Subcommittee on Research
  • Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics

More Background Data

• Background information on Michael McCaul from Project Vote Smart

• Interest group scorecard ratings for Michael McCaul from Project Vote Smart

• Voting record for Michael McCaul from the Washington Post database

• Information on Michael McCaul from Congress Merge

Wikipedia also has an article on Michael McCaul. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.

Contact

DC Office:

415 Cannon House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: 202-225-2401

Fax: 202-225-5955

Web Email

Website

District Office- Austin:

903 San Jacinto, Suite 320

Austin, TX 78701

Phone: 512-473-2357

Fax: 512-473-0514

District Office- Brenham:

2000 South Market Street, Suite 303

Brenham, TX 77833

Phone: 979-830-8497

Fax: 979-830-1984

District Office- Houston:

1550 Foxlake, Suite 114

Houston, TX 77084

Phone: 281-398-1247

Fax: 281-579-3401

District Office- Tomball:

Rosewood Professional Building

990 Village Square, Suite B

Tomball, TX 77375

Phone: 281-255-8372

Fax: 281-255-0034

Campaign Address:

815 A Brazos Street

Personal Mail Box 230

Austin, TX 78701

Phone: 512-431-2052

Fax:

Articles and resources

• Official website
• Campaign website
• Open Secrets - 2006 congressional races database

Local blogs and discussion sites

• Ted Ankrum
• Burnt Orange Report

Corresponding article on Wikipedia and Cause Caller. (If Cause Caller link does not work, pick from its list of senators and representatives.)

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6	Koch Industries				$10,000	$0	$10,000
6	Horizon Bank				$10,000	$10,000	$0
6	American Bankers Assn				$10,000	$0	$10,000
6	American Crystal Sugar				$10,000	$0	$10,000
6	BAE Systems				$10,000	$0	$10,000
6	Core Laboratories				$10,000	$10,000	$0
15	AT&T Inc				$9,000	$0	$9,000
15	National Assn of Realtors				$9,000	$0	$9,000
17	Northrop Grumman				$8,000	$0	$8,000
17	Accenture				$8,000	$0	$8,000
17	VeriSign Inc				$8,000	$2,000	$6,000
17	Lockheed Martin				$8,000	$0	$8,000

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