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McCaul Plans Tough Border Security Bill

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, January 16th, 2015

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McCaul Plans Tough Border Security Bill

Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Committee on Homeland Security as well as co-chair of the Friends of Australia Caucus. (Photo: U.S. House of Representatives)

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) on Friday introduced new legislation focused on border security that will also include penalties if the White House ignores the “will of Congress.”“The Secure Our Borders First Act (H.R. 399) will be the most significant and toughest border security bill ever set before Congress,” McCaul said in a statement at a congressional Republican retreat in Hershey, Pa. “We are putting fencing where fencing is needed and technology where technology is needed to…

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