Adriano Espaillat

It just baffles me that we can probably put a man or a woman on Mars soon and we can't find out where these girls are.

Secretary of Defense Mattis said if we don't fund the State Department fully then we need to buy more ammunition ultimately.

We need to be investing more in our peacekeeping operation and other State Department efforts like USAID.

My feeling is that the tax incentive is sort of a touch of a feather, as far as the incentive that it creates for a company that is in real need of attracting a strong workforce.

Let me remind you that you're talking about premium increases and you, yourself, have said that companies consider this to be a tax.

But you said that if we do nothing this it's doomsday down the road.

I think we need to be cracking down on drug cartels, not undocumented immigrants.

There is no tolerance by the United States of the human rights violations, murderous ethnic cleansing, and atrocities against civilians perpetrated by the Government of Myanmar.

I stand with the support of the State of Israel, and I am proud to lend my support to these pieces of legislation.

The lack of funding and pulling TPS and this misguided foreign policy direction by the Trump administration confer the cost, instability in the region.

But I feel that what's happening now--the President and the administration are undermining diplomacy in North Korea, where it is needed more than ever, hampering our ability to lead on the issue.

I am not sure we have seen evidence of that. Unfortunately, what we have seen is rising tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.

Administrations of both parties have failed to put a lid on the Kim regime's nuclear program over the course of decades.

It is important to ensure that we get those resources to them in a timely fashion again to ensure survival and hopefully prospering.

Do you have Spanish speaking personnel, and is there an assistant from the Pan American Health Organization to Puerto Rico going there?

If we don't continue to advance and support the people there at ensuring that this government in Guatemala, the current government, understands that we will not stand for their elitist corruption behavior.

I think it's important to layout that this is far from being amnesty. Amnesty is what Ronald Reagan did. You know, he says, you can come in now, go to your local police precinct, and get fingerprinted. You know, they're going to have to…

We like to hear that DACA is the top of the priority, the legislative priority. And this really comes as a result of all the mobilization of the Dreamers and advocates and even some CEOs, some good companies out there that understand that…

He doesn't have to send it back to Congress. In fact, in Congress, we have several pieces of legislation that takes care of the problem. We have the Dream Act that is sponsored by Congresswoman Lucille Roybal Allard and Ileana…

It is deeply troubling to me that the White House and Secretary Tillerson have proposed a 37 percent cut. Congress must reject it.

The Caribbean is an important region for us not only because of its proximity and its geopolitical importance but for the economic and security partnership that traditionally has characterized the relationship between the United States and…

Our responsibility in the U.S. Congress is to provide for a fair, open, inclusive process that will allow for the people of Puerto Rico to resolve that issue once and for all.

I want to thank Congressman Kelly for his statement regarding our people in the military.

We filed H.R. 2429, which is a bill, a bipartisan bill that has a lot of ideas regarding small business on the island.

Puerto Rico is a colony and we need to resolve that issue.