Eliot Engel

We cannot speak credibly on the issue of wildlife trafficking if we continue to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world when it comes to climate change.

Thanks to Chairman Royce, the End Wildlife Trafficking Act became law in 2016.

One of the main reasons we talk about this issue here in the Foreign Affairs Committee is that we have a national security interest in putting a stop to wildlife trafficking.

We cannot allow these wonderful animals to disappear forever.

The impact of your efforts will be felt well into the future both here in Congress and around the world.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this important hearing. And let me say that here in Congress we didn't hear a lot about wildlife trafficking and the way it intersects with our national security concerns before you, Mr. Chairman, put…

This is a job for our diplomats. In recent years, we have seen more and more of the State Department's responsibilities trickle to other agencies. And this is a trend we need to stop.

Promoting global prosperity is a major goal for our foreign policy, and economic assistance and development credit is an essential tool for achieving that.

The Honorable Eliot L. Engel

We should be building a war crimes tribunal case against the Assad regime.

I think that what Bashar al-Assad has done cannot pass without consequences.

The administration, in my opinion, appears to be handing Syrian territory over to the Assad regime.

I wish that had been infinite and I still hold out hope that that could be achieved if we took a different path.

Taking this action this afternoon I think just made the North Korea deal harder to achieve.

It's time to look at the non-nuclear side of Iran policy.

Congress has done its part. We have given the administration all the tools it needs to crack down on Iran for its illegal ballistic missile program, its support for terrorism, its atrocious human rights record.

Instead, the administration wants to sit back and say Europe needs to do the hard work or Congress needs to fix it.

But I know for certain that pulling out of the deal now will make a nuclear-armed Iran a much more immediate threat.

I think it undermines our credibility and it's the wrong message to send, and I have to note that President Trump could not have been more wrong when he said that killing the Iran deal sends the right message to North Korea.

Let's work cooperatively with our allies rather than ruining any chance we have of keeping the Iranians from the bomb for a longer time.

Once again, the President has created a crisis where none exists and kept us all wondering what he's going to do.

If he puts those sanctions back into effect, the United States will be in violation of our obligations under the nuclear deal and trigger the deal's collapse.

To me, an Administrator should be someone who cares about these things, not someone who is going to ruin these things.

By announcing that we will abandon our commitment to the Paris Agreement, this administration is setting the clock back on U.S. climate action.

The Paris Agreement was and still is our best chance to address these risks for all Americans but we can't do it alone.