Adriano Espaillat actually said...

"These human beings are being referred to as merchandise and sold for a few hundred dollars. This is horrible and wrong."

"H.R. 4681, also known as the No Assistance for Assad Act, will limit assistance for areas of Syria that are under Assad's control."

"Much has been said about the vacuum of leadership that has been left open by the United States for decades and decades, and we may think that the main beneficiary of such vacuum are countries like Ven..."

"So we must regain the ability to invest in the region so that we could, again, fill that vacuum and we do not yield that vacuum to a country that is already very much present there."