Former Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees Chairman Michael McCaul announces his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives
McCaul was elected to Congress from Texas.
Michael McCaul is one of the most senior members of the United States House of Representatives. He is now preparing to depart from Congress.
McCaul has announced that he does not intend to seek re-election to the House in 2026. His declaration came just days after that of another Republican members of the Texas delegation in Morgan Luttrell made a similar one.
McCaul hold his House seat via the 10th District of Texas, which includes portions of the Austin and Houston regions. He won his first Congressional race in 2004 and has been re-elected 10 times since then.
From 2013 to 2019, McCaul served as Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. In 2023, he became the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman after spending times as its Ranking Member. He stayed in the post until earlier this year.
Before going into politics, McCaul was a federal prosecutor and worked in the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Justice Department. In 1999, he joined the Office of the Deputy Attorney General of Texas.
The son of a highly decorated veteran of World War II and the Korean War, Michael McCaul is a native of Dallas, Texas. He attended Trinity University and St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, eventually followed by Harvard University.
In 1993, McCaul married Linda Mays, daughter and sister of media moguls Lowry and Mark Mays. The couple have five children.