Eliot Engel

I would also like to express my support for House Resolution 129, which highlights Saudi Arabia's troubling detention and persecution of women's rights activities.

I remain particularly baffled by the precipitous withdrawal that President Trump announced late last year.

It breaks my heart. And it is a failure of leadership in this country as well as around the world.

I view the crisis in Syria as one of the greatest tragedies of our time.

Girls and women deserve to be educated, to be economically independent, to be the deciders of their own fates.

Child marriage is a violation of human rights and a form of violence against women.

I would strongly encourage this committee to bring that bill up for markup.

I am a strong supporter of continuing U.S. assistance to the Northern Triangle.

I have seen firsthand in my trips to the region that our programs have been effective in reducing violence and poverty in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

Turkey's President Erdogan has made no secret of his desire to expand Turkish control over a section of northern Syria.

When the President mentioned that we were going to get out of Syria, which was a huge mistake and I hope they are walking it back a bit, one of the reasons that I think it is a terrible mistake is because we have had the Kurds fighting…

America is important in the world. People look up to us.

It is just really, really important that we look out for the well-being of the Kurdish people in that region.

It would just be the wrong thing to do morally. It would be the wrong thing to do in so many ways.

The shroud of secrecy that veils the drug supply chain can make it challenging even for experienced health care professionals.

Due to the lack of transparency, my constituents often get a pricing surprise when they arrive at their pharmacy.

U.S. prescription drug spending rose by 41 percent between 2007 and 2017.

Mr. McCaul and I recently reintroduced the Global Fragility Act to promote this approach.

When journalists seek and tell the truth, they become the targets of those who reject these values.

I agree with that assessment. But the Administration's intention to counter that appears to be through bilateral actions.

I do have some concerns with the Administration's approaches, including the recognition of the fraudulent election outcome in the DRC.

Yet, authorities there have ramped up repression and violence against opposition politicians and civil society.

We have seen a number of cases in where lip service has been paid to good governance and respect for human rights.

My concern is that the Administration is taking an unbalanced approach favoring security-focused responses instead of getting to the root causes of instability.

This resolution, which aims to promote American business abroad, is in direct support of the goals of Prosper Africa.