Adriano Espaillat

We must continue to highlight America's long-standing tradition to offer humanitarian aid and allow refugees from troubled parts of the world to enter America.

The bombing of the airfield has not deterred the Assad regime from continuing in its bad ways.

The Disaster Loan Program is a critical lifeline for disaster victims, and it is the Committee's responsibility to provide the necessary oversight and ensured accountability.

We cannot afford to repeat what occurred when Superstorm Sandy hit back in 2012.

Today represents a proactive effort by our Committee to review the Small Business Administration Disaster Loan Program before the next major storm may hit.

The Resolution 54, reaffirming the United States and Argentina's partnership is a worthy one.

If Trump is serious about draining the swamp, then the President needs to release his tax returns.

This so-called skinny budget, which I call an anemic budget, prioritizes building border walls over diplomacy.

Trump's budget is a threat to national security and is a threat to the interests of the American people.

This budget gambles with American lives and makes Americans last.

This is an overwhelming display of local support for this particular program.

There are thousands of AmeriCorps members serving in New York City, a number of whom serve in my congressional district.

Why not create an incentive in our higher education system to have the best that are local here to come to those districts?

Why adopt this heavy-handed approach to eliminate loan forgiveness programs when, in fact, these are essential and basic to many neighborhoods throughout the country?

Loan forgiveness programs have for many years... been a part and parcel of a mechanism to bring professional help and public service to distressed areas across the Nation.

Trump's budget request is cold. It is a coldhearted budget, stripping funding from longstanding federal programs.

This heartless budget prioritizes building a border wall over diplomacy and housing the poor.

We need those answers. And we need to bring a group of witnesses here.

We need to know who enabled the Russians to hijack our democratic process.

I believe very strongly that this crisis is as serious as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I think that is what the American people want to know.

I echo my Democratic colleagues because I don't think that we can overstate this, that we need a 9/11-style commission.

These cuts... would end up costing taxpayers even more than if we invest now.

Cutting these programs is just unconscionable.

Your budget is inadequate at best and unconscionable at worst.