Honorable Michael McCaul
U.S. Representative, Texas, Republic
Representative McCaul, of the Tenth District of Texas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004. He serves on the House Homeland Security Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies. The following is excerpted from a March 13, 2013, statement during the House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on “Cybersecurity: Roles and Responsibilities to Protect the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure.” Cyber-attacks come in all forms. America is the victim of cyber-espionage. Countries steal our military and intelligence information. There are threats of cyber-warfare from terrorists, and economic cyber-attacks from Iran and…
