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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 17, 2019

Madam President, I am going to speak for a minute before I make my unanimous consent request. Now, we have a crisis here in this world and here in America. Because of the President's precipitous action to take a small number of American…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-17
Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 17, 2019

Mr. President, now on climate, as Senator Cardin well knows, later the Senate will vote on his resolution of disapproval to repeal the Trump administration's so-called affordable clean energy rule. This is one of the few opportunities…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-17
Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 17, 2019

Mr. President, one final note. Today marks 1,000 days of President Trump's time in office. If we were to summarize his administration over the last 2\1/2\ years in a single phrase, it would be this: broken promises to working people. When…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-17
Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. President, the House of Representatives continues to investigate the circumstances of the President's interaction with Ukrainian President Zelensky and whether he used the power of his office to pressure a foreign leader to intervene…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 2605 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 2606 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Eliot Engel
@eliotengel· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. Speaker, I now yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation, a very senior and valued member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Eliot Engel
@eliotengel· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, in the years I have served in this body, I have watched Presidents of both parties make a lot of tough foreign policy decisions; many good, many bad, but I cannot think…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Eliot Engel
@eliotengel· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. Speaker, in closing, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned before, in the years I have served in this body, I have watched Presidents of both parties make a lot of tough foreign policy decisions…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Eliot Engel
@eliotengel· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 77) opposing the decision to end certain United States efforts to prevent Turkish military operations against Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria. The…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Eliot Engel
@eliotengel· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, since the beginning of this Congress, when I became chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I have tried to work across the aisle to advance a bipartisan vision of what…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Eliot Engel
@eliotengel· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.J. Res. 77. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of…

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Eliot Engel
@eliotengel· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Cicilline), a valued member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Congressional Record · 2019-10-16
Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Anyone who speaks my uncle's name, please speak it in a way that will draw people together and bring help to people in these communities, including human beings who have been locked up for too long.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

Today's hearing is one that is long overdue, but it is also one that is welcomed in the environment in which we have today.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Oct 16, 2019

I think Elijah would be very pleased with what has come, with a bill that he and I introduced this year, the FAIR Act.

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