Adriano Espaillat

While Haiti will never achieve political consensus, political compromise can be obtainable.

The results have been more successful and more sustainable when the U.S. has been joined by partners across the hemisphere.

If the United States does not lead, no one else will step up to take our place.

The truth is climate change is real, and the likelihood that we will see another Sandy in the next few years is uncomfortably high.

What about the consideration of the sea level rise aspect of any new project that will prevent these kinds of impacts by the next Super Storm Sandy?

First of all, in Virginia, natural and nature-based features as our first line of defense is our top priority as we work to develop a coastal strategy.

Climate change is an international problem that requires international solutions.

We need serious investments to mitigate and adapt to climate change. But it will cost us more in the long-term if we do not act now, financially and existentially.

Every law we pass, every action to mitigate and adapt to climate change must include acknowledgement of and protections for marginalized and frontline communities who bear the burden climate change.

When the House passed the Climate Action Now Act earlier this year, it included an amendment of mine that simply stated that climate justice and environmental justice must be included in our efforts to meet the Paris Agreement and mitigate…

It is frontline communities, communities of color, indigenous communities, women, children, migrants, people with disabilities, and other marginalized communities who bear the greatest burden, though they contribute the least to the causes…

Mitigating and adapting to climate change is the issue of our time. It is an existential problem, one that we have waited much too long to take seriously.

Put this one in the first three, according to me.

A rose is a rose by any other name. You still have a billboard intrusive in a scenic view right across a cemetery in one of the most pristine, beautiful areas of New York City.

The U.S. pullout has basically created a vacuum of leadership that has allowed for both the Russians and the Syrians to have an upper hand in that region.

I am about to pull my vote if they do not do something about this.

I want to thank my colleague, Congressman Balderson of Ohio for working with me on this bipartisan legislation.

All roads lead to Ms. Velazquez's district. And I am not wrong.

Thank you, Madam Chair Velazquez and Ranking Member Chabot for convening this markup session.

I want to particularly thank the Chairwoman for helping move this piece of legislation.

Now, we can do better than that, and we must do better than that and the NO BAN Act will help us do better than that.

I entered the facility, Mr. Hoffman, and I say facility because it had all the characteristics of a jailhouse.

Well, let me just State for the record, Madam Chair, that in my efforts to advocate for three folks, including a student at NYU high school--at NYU college and two relatives of Members of our Armed Forces, I entered what looked to be a…

I would ask the Committee to examine this disparity and explore a means to broaden the eligibility.

I respectfully ask that the Committee continue to make this and addressing veteran homelessness in general a top priority.