Washington, June 3 -- Congressman Michael McCaul issued the following press release:

At today's House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) - chairman emeritus of the committee and chairman of the committee's Task Force on Enhancing Security for Special Events - asked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin about the status of security preparations ahead of the first FIFA World Cup match next week.

As chairman of the Congressional Artificial Intelligence (AI) Caucus and the original author of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Act that created CISA, McCaul also discussed the need for DHS to retain a leading role in the Treasury Department's new AI cleari...