Eliot Engel actually said...

"It is time for this vacancy to be filled."

"This goes in line with the way you and I have both tried to run this committee in the most bipartisan way possible."

"I believe with all my heart that if it works in Brazil it can work here if we wish it to work."

"I introduced it in a bipartisan way, as I always have, with Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen as my cosponsor."