Adriano Espaillat

Was there any sweep of the Capitol or the premises around the Capitol ordered for explosives during the days leading up to January 6?

Thank you, Chairman. Thank you. Right now, I am sort of like the Mariano Rivera of this committee.

Were there any weapons confiscated from the racist mob?

But allow me, we have heard from Capitol Police that were called the n-word. We saw the Confederate flag and the gallows with the noose and the rope out there.

Given the nature of the attack and the fact that it was perpetrated with a racist, White supremacist tone and the Confederate flag was paraded around the Capitol...

Was he wearing a vest, a bulletproof vest?

Today I cast my vote for the second time to impeach Donald J. Trump. He is unfit to hold office. He summonsed and dispatched his mob to kidnap and hurt many of us. He is unfit to hold office. He summonsed and dispatched his mob to…

We have all known it for a while now, but this past week it has become undeniably clear: Donald J. Trump is unfit. To the Secretaries of Agriculture, Defense, Commerce, Education, and Transportation: He is unfit. To the Secretaries of…

I feel very strongly that it won't be the same way we were attacked during January 6, that it may have a different sort of like approach.

What makes the Caesar sanctions different?

I appreciate your leadership on the committee, your attempts to reach bipartisan solutions when we can.

Again, I want to thank Congresswoman Kaptur for her work on this measure and for being an advocate for energy security and the United States-European cooperation on this particular issue. Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to support this…

I have often tried to jealously guard the, you know, water's edge theory when it comes to foreign policy.

Oversight of the executive branch is something we do. It is core to what we do.

Congress should enact the 'Housing Survivors of Major Disasters Act,' (H.R. 2914), introduced by Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), which contains critically needed reforms to ensure that the lowest-income and most marginalized…

Congress should permanently authorize DHAP and automatically activate it after every disaster.

Congress should enact clarifying legislation to ensure that people experiencing homelessness prior to the disaster have access to the same emergency shelter and disaster relief assistance as other survivors.

Federal disaster housing response and recovery efforts must address and prioritize the needs of the lowest-income and most marginalized survivors.

Congress must ensure that equity is a central and explicit goal of federal disaster housing response and recovery efforts.

I thank the Committee for your work on this bill and ask that you help move it to the floor for a vote.

I also want to stress my displeasure, my objection to the precedence of folks that have made anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, Islamophobic statements...

Let me just say that it has been very difficult for the Latin American and the Caribbean and they are in dire need of test kits, of ventilators now, of course PPEs, and we are coming right into hurricane season.

We can whine and complain about China, but the fact of the matter is that they go in there and they take ownership of major projects.

We want freedom for Hong Kong, not immigration from Hong Kong.

If the bank is shutting you out then, then we are in trouble.