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U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, is not ruling out challenging U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in 2018, but he's emphasizing that he is not focused on it for now. "Like Reagan said, never say never, but it's not something I'm spending a whole lot of time thinking about right now," McCaul told reporters Wednesday in Austin.
A Republican convention we're unlikely to soon forget kicked off Monday , and within hours, it was clear this would not simply be a four-day Donald Trump love fest. Melania Trump came, she saw, she did just fine, and then walked off arm in arm with her husband to thunderous applause and the power chords of Queen's We Are The Champions .
House Republicans are laying out a national security agenda that seeks to turn the conversation away from Donald Trump's contentious presidential campaign and toward concrete policies for securing America's borders and defeating extremist groups. Speaking Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Congressman Michael McCaul of Texas says Trump's proposed plan to ban all Muslims from coming into the United States isn't practical.
Ryan promoted the plan in his opening remarks at a Council on Foreign Relations event featuring speakers such as Homeland Security Committee Chairman, Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, and Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte. He called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech to US Congress on Wednesday a rarity in a time when "our friendships have frayed, our rivalries have intensified."
Most of the new screeners will be sent to the nation's busiest airports in Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and other hubs, TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger told a House committee. The TSA also has increased the use of overtime, converted some part-time workers to full-time status and increased the use of bomb-sniffing dogs to help with security lines, Neffenger said.