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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Gabby Birenbaum

Rep. Michael McCaul, foreign policy hawk in an increasingly isolationist GOP, recounts 20 years in Congress


Rep. Michael McCaul’s Washington office is full of relics from far-flung places, mementos from his years of travel as one of Congress’ top national security and foreign policy legislators.

There’s a photo of him with the Dalai Lama in India. A birthday card hand-drawn by Bono when the two attended the Munich Security Conference. And one item from overseas that he didn’t receive from a world leader or foreign dignitary — the Army uniform his father wore fighting in World War II as a B-17 bombardier, laid out and framed above his desk.

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