Adriano Espaillat
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Adriano Espaillat is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 13th congressional district since January 3, 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is notable for being the first Dominican-American to serve in the U.S. Congress. Espaillat has focused on various issues including immigration reform, affordable housing, and healthcare access during his tenure. He has been an advocate for the rights of marginalized communities and has worked to address the needs of his constituents in New York City.
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 entered the facility, Mr. Hoffman, and I say facility because it had all the characteristics of a jailhouse.
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 respectfully ask that the Committee continue to make this and addressing veteran homelessness in general a top priority.
I wish to voice my support for the Housing and Urban Development Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program.
I would ask the Committee to examine this disparity and explore a means to broaden the eligibility.
I think that your job is very important and what you do within the administration is very important, because I do think that this is ultimately a battle of ideas and philosophy.
I support H.R. 3501. The new cold war is not about the Berlin Wall, although our Nation, the White House is trying to build a wall somewhere else.
The U.S. Senate should only confirm a new FAA Administrator if the nominee agrees to safety reforms.
The FAA plays too critical of a role in ensuring the safety of the traveling public to be shut down again.
Our aviation system is the largest, busiest, and safest system in the world.
FAA should establish an effective system requiring manufacturers, airlines, pilots and others in the industry to report potential safety problems or defects as an 'early warning system.'
Any nominee for FAA Administrator who does not unequivocally agree to safety reforms at the FAA is not qualified to serve as the leader of this critical organization.
The credibility of the US aviation system, and perhaps Boeing itself, cannot survive a third crash.
The FAA surrenders too much of its authority to Boeing, and if Congress decides to endorse the FAA's status quo, Congress would be surrendering its authority to Boeing as well.
The new cold war is about cybersecurity, fundamentally about, in this particular debate, about how Russia, as per Volume I of the Mueller report, interferes in our electoral system.
To have a foreign country which has ill will against America interfere, deliberately, pre-meditatively, maliciously interfere in our electoral process constitutes a clear and present danger.
This is critical because the basis of our democracy, the deep-rooted basis of our democracy is our electoral system.
the bottom line is we all know that the Russians interfered with our elections; the Russians hacked a major political party;





