McCaul Cites Need for Port Security, After Meeting in Houston
The U.S. "must better protect our ports" in order to assure continued world trade, said House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) in a statement after meeting with the Port of Houston Authority. "It's important we have the security…
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in place, the security grants in place that have gone down over the years," he said. We want to see Houston's share increase." McCaul said it "wasn't too long ago ... they found documents from Bin Laden indicating he wanted to target oil tankers, and that puts this port at risk." He also cited the expansion of the Panama Canal, which he said "will bring great opportunity with increased imports of liquid natural gas into what is already the energy capital of the United States and a national leader in the movement of cargo."