Adriano Espaillat

We saw how the traditional banks favor their perceived customers.

The PPP program originally was a disaster.

Small businesses were mad as hell. I was mad as hell. I am sorry to report to you, Madam Chair, that they are still mad as hell.

In the Northwest Bronx, in Washington Heights, Inwood, in Harlem and East Harlem, this pandemic is still ravaging Black and Brown lives. The economic plight this virus will leave will be unprecedented. I am glad we are providing $60…

Small businesses on Main Street are the strength of our communities, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made that clear.

I thank my colleague from the great State of New York, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, and the 98 Members who are cosponsors of the Green New Deal. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

Stopping narcotics from coming through the Caribbean is important not only for combating the drug problem in the U.S., but for promoting stability in Caribbean countries.

As someone that was born in the Caribbean and as a member of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I know that maintaining our foreign aid and diplomatic commitments show that we are well positioned in that…

The bill, which passed unanimously out of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in February 2020, contains critically needed reforms to ensure the lowest-income and most marginalized survivors can access the housing…

I do get concerned when I look at Europe and I look at the United States and when I see governments accepting and/or even to some degree running on anti-Semitic.

People are not going to remember the actions of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

I have an obligation to say: That is not appropriate. You cannot do that. That is hate.

The day that hate speech becomes acceptable, freedom of speech ends because that is a danger to all of us.

I am a firm believer and follower... Anti-Semitism, hatred, it matters. And we have got to stand up and speak out about it.

It was a good start. I am not arguing that things could have not gotten better... we threw them under the bus.

I recognize that in fact it was not fully--a fully strong document, but it was a good beginning.

How could you reconcile the administration's inability to recognize climate change as a contributing factor of these superstorms that impact infrastructure?

To some degree the administration drives this train. And if they are unwilling to recognize climate change...

It is clear that climate change contributed to the storm's unprecedented impacts, and that future storms may be even worse.

If we don't recognize climate change as a factor, then whatever you do is going to be flawed and inefficient.

I do not want us to spend our money in the wrong place that will cause damage to everyday Haitians.

I do not see how the United States is going to be able to come in and demand or say that this is the person you should vote for.

I think ultimately, the power does rest... in the people of Haiti to decide to come together.

The crisis in the Caribbean is very much deep rooted in what we have done as a country

Without a change in course, Haiti's deterioration will continue in ways that will be damaging.