Adriano Espaillat

In my opinion, infrastructure should include our public housing network, and we should provide adequate funding for families to have a safe and healthy environment.

Public housing operations and capital have been underfunded for many, many years, putting long-term viability of the units at risk.

Public housing is a valuable asset for more than 400,000 New Yorkers.

The cuts that are being proposed also include cuts in Section 8 Housing Vouchers for people like homeless veterans.

This is particularly concerning, as it relates to already poor and struggling communities.

We should own up to our responsibility to provide a safe, healthy, and sustainable life setting in these units.

This provides funding through April 28, 2017, which is just around the corner.

It is my hope that Congress will enact regular full-year fiscal year 2018 appropriations for HUD programs prior to the end of fiscal year 2017.

If the Affordable Care Act is repealed, a hole of $3 billion will be in New York State's budget, 2.7 million New Yorkers will lose their coverage

I believe that the guidelines that were made public yesterday really provide no specific details as to how the law is going to be enforced.

It's really much more than that. It's really about who we are as nation. It's really expediting removal of immigrants, splitting families.

This is really personal. It strikes me, it hurts me. As an American, it hurts me.

People are afraid. Even people with green cards that are legitimately here.

It sets the hounds loose after immigrants. I think it's very damaging and it's going to harm our nation in the eyes of the international community and at home.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to the witnesses, Ranking Gentlewoman Velazquez, for this opportunity.

So guaranteeing that these companies and entrepreneurs have a good understanding of the Tax Code is extremely important.

I want to thank God we have the $15-an-hour minimum wage coming into New York next year.

Many of these fast food franchises keep their workers under the minimum wage, and by doing so, these workers fall under the poverty levels.

Part of the majority's agenda will focus on weakening private-sector unions, which only make up 7 percent of the workforce.

This is the 25th hearing on the National Labor Relations Board since the Republicans took control of Congress in 2011.

Further, rolling back this regulation directly targets inner-city public schools and shows, at best, indifference to our Nation's most vulnerable students. It will leave students-- specifically, low-income minority students and…

I would not be able to own my business without the Affordable Care Act.

He has said flat-out that the congressman has been ineffective since that censure.

Espaillat, he minced no words. He really was accusing Charlie Rangel, basically the 84-year-old congressman, the long-term democratic congressman from that district of becoming in recent years an embarrassment to fellow Democrats.

It is time for change