Adriano Espaillat

I think there is a consensus that Maduro is a dictator.

In New York City, funding through the New Starts program is absolutely vital for extending the Second Avenue subway.

the Trump budget, again, calls for eliminating capital improvement grants.

the administration had the gall to say that a major project of regional and national significance... is a State issue.

the Trump administration released a budget that will divest the Federal Government from infrastructure.

As has been said here tonight, bringing relief, permanent relief to DACA recipients and TPS beneficiaries must not be delayed. Comprehensive immigration reform cannot continue to be delayed. That is why I am so happy, as I mentioned…

The Dominican Republic lost one of its brightest stars this week, with the passing of singer and composer Froilan Antonio Jimenez, known in the artistic world as Anthony Rios. Rios' ascent was rapid due to his remarkable work ethic…

As the whip of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, I am pleased to lead our second monthly Special Order hour. Last month, my colleagues and I spoke about the importance of comprehensive immigration reform. Since then, the Congressional…

The Clean Water State Revolving Fund and its sister program, the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, are of vital importance to New York City and New York State and cities around the country really.

Let me just share some numbers with you from respective States across the country. The number of TPS holders, for example, in the State of California, over 50,000 of them; in your home State of Florida, Madam Speaker, over 44,000 of them…

And just keep in mind that as we begin to pay more attention to the border and Central and South America, drug dealers will shift their strategy to other borders.

We need to, again, reassert ourselves as the leader of the Americas and do so by assisting governments to provide good services and programs that will reduce the migration.

It is imperative that the U.S. support the right of the Venezuelan people to freely and fairly elect their leaders.

We must establish our leadership again, but we must do it by assisting those nations to address some of the fundamental reasons why there is a large exodus of families for the most part.

We have abdicated our leadership role in that region and created a vacuum of leadership, and for that reason we have seen now recently how countries even like China have stepped in to plug that leadership gap that we have left unattended…

I recognize that that is tragic and that a lot of the funding that is going to help the Venezuelan people is being stopped at some of their border points.

Thank you, Madam Chair and Ranking Member Rogers for allowing me to testify during today's hearing to lay out what I feel are my priorities as they relate to the State Department and related agencies.

The U.S. cannot again be a foreign power meddling in the affairs of another country.

I think that we have turned our heads and our backs on that region for far too long, and they are really our backyard, and we should have an ongoing positive working relationship.

I urge this committee again to double the funding for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative for Fiscal year 2019.

I am in support of the Venezuelan people and their efforts to have transparent, democratic elections.

I urge the committee to include report language that funding be of a humanitarian nature and explicitly not intended for the use of military or state police efforts.

I am proposing a doubling of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative program.

Yet the appointment of an individual who was criminally charged for lying to Congress seems to particularly be irresponsible.

Less than 2 weeks ago, after a failed attempt to establish consensus on border security funding, President Trump, a self-proclaimed master negotiator, failed to get a border wall that he originally said Mexico will pay for, so then he…