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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is welcomed to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. It is Zelenskyy's second visit to Washington since Russia invaded and comes as President Joe Biden's request to Congress for an additional $24 billion for Ukraine is hanging in the balance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House lawmakers meet with Zelenskyy, call for victory plan

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Foreign Minister Tobias Billström, background, listens, during a press briefing together with U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, foreground and Gregory Meeks, in Stockholm, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. The United States House Foreign Affairs chair says that a partnership of the Russian and Chinese leaders worries him, saying: “We have never seen a threat this large-scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.” (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

McCaul calls Russia-China alliance the biggest threat since WWII

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks to employees at The Eli's Cheesecake Company during a visit Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Chicago. Blinken applauded the Chicago based company for their commitment to hiring refugees and immigrants. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Rep. McCaul grills Blinken over State Department officials’ ties to Penn Biden Center

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, assist qualified evacuees boarding a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Afghanistan chaos: GOP report reveals new details of Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the Voice of America, Amanda Bennett poses for a photo on Nov. 16, 2016, in Washington. Bennett, the director of Voice of America and her deputy Sandy Sugawara resigned Monday, June 15, 2020, following recent clashes with the Trump administration. The pair announced they were leaving the organization as Trump ally and conservative filmmaker Michael Pack takes over leadership of the agency that oversees VOA. (Magda Hishmeh/Voice of America via AP)

Lawmaker calls for more scrutiny of Biden’s nominee to run fed’s global media agency

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, questions Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday April 28, 2022, to review the U.S. Department of State's foreign policy priorities and fiscal year 2023 budget request. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

McCaul pushes for quick approval of additional Ukraine aid

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Path forward for $33 billion Ukraine package muddled on Hill

By Haris Alic and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is seen in this file photo, joined at left by Chairman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., at a hearing on Sept. 13, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

McCaul calls on Biden to conduct a sanctions review before making a new nuke deal with Tehran

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is seen in this file photo, joined at left by Chairman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., at a hearing on Sept. 13, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Rep. Michael McCaul says the time for diplomacy with Russia is over

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Local residents attend the all-Ukrainian training campaign "Don't panic! Get ready!" close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. Russia has denied any plans of attacking Ukraine, but urged the U.S. and its allies to provide a binding pledge that they won't accept Ukraine into NATO, won't deploy offensive weapons, and will roll back NATO deployments to Eastern Europe. Washington and NATO have rejected the demands. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

White House national security adviser warns: Russian war looms with ‘enormous human cost’

By Seth McLaughlin and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is seen in this file photo, joined at left by Chairman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., at a hearing on Sept. 13, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

McCaul runs campaign ad blasting Beijing Olympics

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, arrive to meet at the "Villa la Grange," in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File Pool)

Tensions soar as Putin, Biden hold high-stakes virtual summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, speaks during the House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on the administration's foreign policy priorities on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Washington. (Ken Cedeno/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Senior House Republican demands Biden declassify Afghanistan intel

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, joined at left by Chairman Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., discusses the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan with Secretary of State Antony Blinken who appeared remotely, at the Capitol in Washington on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Republicans hammer Blinken over Afghan debacle while Dems blame Trump

By Ben Wolfgang and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Visitors wear face masks to protect against COVID-19 as they walk at a tourist shopping street in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Chinese authorities announced Tuesday mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as an unusually wide series of COVID-19 outbreaks reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019. The current outbreaks, while still in the hundreds of cases in total, have spread much more widely than previous ones, reaching multiple provinces and cities including the capital, Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

‘Despicable’: China calls House GOP’s report on COVID origins ‘politically motivated’

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, visit by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) **FILE**

‘Greatest cover-up of all time’: House GOP presents evidence of COVID-19 origins, Wuhan lab leak

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with heads of the world's leading news agencies during the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) via video conference at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 4, 2021. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Rep. McCaul demands Biden make freedom for American detainees precondition for Putin summit

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Protesters in Hong Kong have been pressuring Beijing to abide by its promised "one country, two systems" policy that allowed a democratic system to operate. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump cautious on China amid Hong Kong protests

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The first shipments of the Russian S-400 missile defense system have arrived in Turkey, moving the country closer to a standoff with Washington. The U.S. has strongly urged the NATO member to pull back from the deal and warned that it will face economic sanctions. (Associated Press)

Turkey’s Russia missile system means U.S. sanctions

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the UVA campus in Charlottesville, Va. Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday after violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP) ** FILE **

Michael McCaul, House Homeland Security chairman, schedules Charlottesville domestic terror hearings

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times