Eliot Engel: “Let me just say I would like to briefly respond to the Republican leader's remarks about the Iranian protest movement…”

“Let me just say I would like to briefly respond to the Republican leader's remarks about the Iranian protest movement, because I feel very strongly about the Iranian protest movement and in supporting them. The leader accused the Democrats of being shamed into passing the resolution in support of the protestors in Iran. I want to correct the record because Mr. Deutch, who is a Democrat, introduced this resolution nearly a month before Mr. McCarthy; the House Foreign Affairs Committee marked the resolution a couple of weeks later. So there was no shame, except accusing Democrats of any nefarious motives. That is shameful. I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney), the chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.”