WASHINGTON _ Rep. Mike McCaul says he's "attracted" to the idea of leading the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, a position that could create more debate with the White House on Mexico and Latin American policy.
The Texas Republican, who will soon reach his term limit as the House Homeland Security Committee chairman, shared his interest during a conference in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations emphasizing that the biggest threat he sees for the United States is no longer terrorism, but a nuclear action from a foreign adversary.
"There's so many hot spots right now," McCaul said. "And one thing that attracts me about potentially chairing the Foreign Affairs Committee is we're moving from this ISIS threat to nation-state foreign adversary empires: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, to name a few."
