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Michael McCaul

Summary

Michael McCaul is a U.S. Representative from Texas who co-chairs the Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus and previously chaired House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs.

Verified Facts

  • Official House biography states that McCaul is serving his eleventh term representing Texas's 10th District, previously chaired Homeland Security, and in the 118th Congress chaired Foreign Affairs.1
  • The same biography states that before Congress he served as Chief of Counter Terrorism and National Security in the U.S. Attorney's office for the Western District of Texas, as Texas Deputy Attorney General, and as a DOJ Public Integrity prosecutor.1
  • The Congressional AI Caucus site lists Michael T. McCaul (TX-10) as a co-chair.2

Key Legislation and Oversight

Historical Context

McCaul's AI-caucus role sits on a longer homeland-security and foreign-affairs record. That is the national-security framing of House AI policy, complementary to Beyer's transparency bills and Obernolte's task-force process.

Relevance to Open Source and Software Companies

A Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security veteran co-chairing the AI caucus is a primary House contact for export controls, adversarial-use, and critical-infrastructure arguments that often sweep in open-weight model releases.

Relationships

  • PERSON-MICHAEL-MCCAUL cites SRC-MCCAUL-BIO.
  • PERSON-MICHAEL-MCCAUL affiliated_with ORG-CONGRESSIONAL-AI-CAUCUS.

Sources

  1. SRC-MCCAUL-BIO: Biography | Congressman Michael McCaul.
  2. SRC-HOUSE-AI-CAUCUS: Congressional Artificial Intelligence Caucus.

Research Debt

  • Add McCaul AI-specific press releases (export controls, China, cybersecurity) from primary House pages.
  • Corroborate chair terms with House History, Art & Archives.
  • Confirm 119th Congress committee assignments against Clerk listings.

Document metadata

  • Last verified: 2026-09-17

  1. SRC-MCCAUL-BIO — Biography | Congressman Michael McCaul. Official House biography; self-reported. ↩↩

  2. SRC-HOUSE-AI-CAUCUS — Official House caucus website. ↩