Eliot Engel

We must also respond to Iran's efforts to destabilize the region.

Finally, we should be supporting the Iranian people who want a better life.

As flawed as the deal is, I believe we must now enforce the hell out of it.

We will hold all perpetrators of this violence, including the Burmese Government and the military, accountable.

This is a human rights issue and a national security issue. We will remain attentive to this pressing matter.

I would encourage the administration to immediately stop issuing JADE Act waivers.

So you would agree with me, then, that this is ethnic cleansing?

There is ample evidence and satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts that Burmese military and security forces have been carrying out an intentional, systematic policy to drive Rohingya from their homes in Burma and to burn their villages…

The Burmese military and border security forces have specifically targeted Rohingya using medieval tactics: Slash and burn, rape, indiscriminate killing.

It is a heartbreaking humanitarian disaster and it is getting worse.

This is ethnic cleansing. The protection of human rights has been our Nation's top priority in Burma, including freeing Aung San Suu Kyi.

As I made clear when I wrote her a month ago, her government and the military have a responsibility to protect all of the people of Burma, regardless of their ethnic background or religious beliefs.

Her recent statement questioning why the Rohingya were fleeing and denying that the military had conducted clearance operations, that is factually false.

The State Counselor, Aung San Suu Kyi, she is a Nobel Prize winner, but she must make it a top priority to provide for the safety of those in Burma, including the Rohingya.

We are providing humanitarian assistance to the Venezuelan people.

The Congressman has been tortured, isolated, and denied medical attention.

I support all of the measures before us this morning.

It should not be one country, one and-a-half systems. It should be one country, two systems.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H. Res. 422 offered by the Honorable Eliot L. Engel, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York.

I would like to hear your opinion, one of the reasons we failed was the lack of funding.

But one of the criticisms the QDDR report, including from our committee, is that it failed to realize many of its goals.

We will eliminate overlap, set priorities, and fund only the work that supports those priorities.

The commitments you made yesterday go a long way in advancing a constructive working relationship. We won't always agree, but I think the constructive working relationship is very important.

There is no doubt that the State Department and all our Federal agencies should be as effective as possible to address the challenges and to seize the opportunities we are facing.

Well, thank you. And H.R. 3394 also contains additional funding for expansion of the program.