Eliot Engel actually said...

You cannot pick up a newspaper these days without seeing a headline about how Secretary Tillerson is hollowing out the State Department.

I am very troubled by the redesign. I am worried that the redesign will be used as an excuse to cut back.

I am concerned about the imbalance between military and the non-military approaches to countering terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa.

You can't cut back, in my opinion, at the rate that the administration has announced it would like to and have an effective workforce.