Rep. Michael McCaul, the outgoing House Foreign Affairs chairman, led the committee during a “historic time,” but he’s happy to leave the gavel to a successor so he can pursue additional endeavors.

During his tenure, the international community had more than its share of monumental events. There was the committee’s Afghanistan withdrawal investigation, then there was also the Chinese spy balloon incident, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in Israel, and the subsequent unrest rippling throughout the Middle East, all with the purported growing threat from China toward Taiwan.