Adriano Espaillat

We owe it to the people of Puerto Rico to have a final resolution to the political limbo that they find themselves.

We need to fix that problem at the source.

There was a vet owner, an IT contractor, highly experienced with excellent references.

We do not have even a veteran outreach center for SBA.

I think that is a very good question.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I don't think that we should dismantle this program. I think that we should strengthen it.

This particular program, the Job Corps program, I think is an example of what we can do for our -- the people that we represent.

I know this firsthand because I benefitted from a summer youth job program in New York--in fact, it was my first job opportunity as a young teenager--and can attest to how critical funding for these programs are.

What about diversity? How are you planning to make the agency be fully diverse? And what are you doing to recruit from different groups?

I will encourage that as technology continues to play a bigger role in small businesses that there is a full effort to try to engage those that are really knowledgeable in assisting small businesses in that endeavor.

The British people are well known for their stiff upper lip, their resolve, and resilience. We have seen all these traits on display in the recent days in the proud European cities of Manchester and London as the dead are mourned, the…

I hope that this is a wakeup call for President Trump to defend and acknowledge LGBT lives across the world.

This campaign is a crime against humanity.

I stand with the LGBT community in Chechnya, and Chechnya's LGBT cleansing must stop.

As the borders of the global market keep expanding, it is crucial that small business can benefit from this expansion and be competitive in a variety of arenas.

I think I can say safely, Mr. Chairman, that this committee has a bipartisan position in support of full funding for the State Department.

And in fact, we saw the Chinese and the Russians, Iran, and even radical groups like Hezbollah establish themselves right in the region because of our benign neglect.

We sort of like turned our heads, we fell asleep at the wheel. We have this attitude of benign neglect for the region that has allowed for these new scenarios to develop which have contributed to adverse relationships with the United…

Certainly, I concur with the witnesses and I thank you for your testimony, that the political instability in Latin America and the Caribbean has been a major hurdle for economic development, in general, particularly energy independence…

I offered an amendment during the markup of this bill which would have stopped this legislation from enabling bad actors to cheat workers out of their pay. It would have exempted willful and repeated violators of the minimum wage and…

I am also proud to lend my support for the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2017.

The American people have this to learn: 'Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them…

I am asking President Trump to reverse his course on the executive order and to come to Congress with a long-term foreign policy strategy on Syria.

We are in the crossroad where we have not heard from the administration with proposing cuts on the State Department.