Eliot Engel

We don't want any situation where our people are being knocked off of Medicaid--people who really need it.

I hope you will visit this committee many times, and I hope you will listen to what some of us on this side of the aisle are saying.

Medicaid is not a handout. It's a health insurance program, and it covers nearly one in five adults in my district.

It isn't subtle. It could not be easier to see that the administration has ways to pay for their legislation.

The President, when he was running for office, said that he would never cut Medicaid and we are, of course, very, very unhappy with potential cuts to Medicaid.

The President wants to end the Food for Peace program. I don't think that is a good idea.

Helping famine-stricken and malnourished people around the world is simply the right thing to do.

Since 1954 Food for Peace has fed more than 4 billion people, that is billion with a 'B' in 150-plus countries all over the world.

I think that is a terrible idea, it would hurt hungry people, that shows a lack of understanding about why the Food for Peace program is so important to our foreign policy.

I was disappointed when I heard that the administration downgraded the State Department cyber diplomacy office.

Do any of you have any reason to doubt the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered to influence our 2016 election?

The President has refused, in my opinion, to hold Russia accountable for election interference.

We need to engage with friendly governments facing the same threats.

I am stunned by the administration's utter failure to respond to these attacks.

The United States is not working closely enough with like-minded governments to deter adversaries from stealing secrets.

America's adversaries are becoming bolder and more sophisticated as they pursue their aims in cyberspace.

We reached a 2015 agreement with China to prevent cyber theft of intellectual property.

I think it has done what it was designed to do, which is we had a nuclear deal, we had commitments on the nuclear side...

Elections are at the core of our country, and if the American people lose faith, lose trust in the integrity of those elections, I, frankly, fear for what that does to our country.

These actions increase the risk of miscalculation.

I think we ought to keep the agreement and enforce it.

I think this has to be much bigger than just sanctions.

Maybe we need tougher measures that would force the administration to act, like the bill I introduced with Mr. Connolly, the SECURE Our Democracy Act.

I think we need to go back to the well again and again to let Putin know he is leading his country into isolation.

I think diplomacy is a key complement to a sanctions package.