Adriano Espaillat

We must remember that we cannot effectively advance our country's interests if we do not stand with our allies.

We must come together to send a powerful signal to Saudi Arabia that our Nation will stand up for core values and interests with regard to all countries, adversaries and allies alike.

Adriano Espaillat called it a nonexistent border crisis.

I guess we are here because our Nation has a chronic problem with accurate census in general.

9/11 was not an inside job. The Bermuda Triangle is not aliens. We landed on the moon. Vaccines save lives. And Iran did the attack in the Gulf.

This Administration has been discredited with regards to fabricating emergencies when there are not and ignoring emergency when in fact there are emergency.

I think that having an American citizen go into an Saudi embassy in Istanbul and disappearing is troubling and that MBS has a troubled record with regards to women's right, dissidents in that nation, and that we are dealing with a thug. We…

So we are dealing with a thug, here. We are dealing a thug here that we are giving arms to.

There was hundreds and thousands of women, primarily, showing up on our border with little children. Many had characterized that as a humanitarian crisis.

This practice by the Administration is very troubling.

It's vitally important that FEMA--and the emergency management community at all levels of government--have the capacity they need to help impacted survivors and communities recover with as little red tape as possible.

I pushed for this provision because the West Coast faces the most risk from multiple and extreme earthquakes, and Oregon is long overdue for an earthquake and tsunami resulting from the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

This is a mess, Ambassador. It shows how poor our foreign policy efforts are as a country.

I think we need to develop a strategy to derail them, no pun intended.

Chinese state-owned enterprises have made it their goal to corner the market in terms of infrastructure.

This is a very important conversation that we are having today.

I think we have sort of, like, ignored that a little bit. And I think it is crucial and strategically crucial that their presence there could be negative for U.S.

What are the actual provisions of those loans that are predatory in nature that will strap countries for decades financially, and maybe put their own sovereignty in jeopardy?

There is no doubt, absolutely no doubt, that the Russian government blatantly interfered in U.S. elections in 2016.

I think local law enforcement is also well equipped to let us know here in Washington where the hot spots--how we can spend the money and how we can save lives.

Madam Chair, let me just stress again the importance of these initiatives and the ability for municipalities to be able to determine where to spend the funding, and they get a fair share of funding to install bollards and other strategies…

This is spiraling out of control, and it could be a major, major humanitarian crisis.

Are we going to allow the Venezuelan people to starve to death?

The effects of climate change are evident today in more extreme temperatures, and more frequent and more intense natural disasters.

Climate change is an existential threat.