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WASHINGTON–Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Congressman Michael T. McCaul (TX-10), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security and senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, today welcomed the House of Representatives’ unanimous passage of their bipartisan measure the Protecting Diplomats from Surveillance Through Consumer Devices Act (H.R. 4989). This legislation would account for location-tracking consumer devices in U.S. embassy and consulate security policies.

WASHINGTON—Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and First Vice Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, today requested more information from the U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry regarding plutonium and cesium that went missing after a March 21, 2017 incident in San Antonio. Congressman Castro’s inquiry comes after press reports detailed the loss by two Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory security experts that drove to San Antonio, Texas of equipment and radioactive material brought into the state used to retrieve nuclear materials from a nonprofit research lab.

Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and First Vice Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, today made the following statement:

Led by Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) joined 17 other Democratic members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs today called on President Trump to cancel his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a letter, the Members expressed deep concern about the President meeting with Putin in light of recent events. Today, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian military officers for attacking American democracy and hacking the 2016 U.S. election, and President Trump spent the week disparaging longstanding U.S. NATO allies.