Eliot Engel

I hope we can pass this bipartisan, bicameral bill as soon as possible so that teaching health centers can continue to provide much needed care to our communities.

I am glad, Dr. Calman, that you explained about the September 30 deadline.

You both would agree that any kind of resolution or partial restitution of this crisis has to go through China, that it is virtually impossible to not involve China.

I don't see the purpose of arguing with South Korea on trade at a time when we need to show strong and resolve.

The President did inherit a complex and intractable foreign policy in North Korea, but his mixed and inconsistent messaging is self-inflicted--it is a self-inflicted wound.

This administration has said that North Korea is its top foreign policy priority; but...he is, in my opinion, undercutting his own peaceful pressure strategy.

I view the Kim regime's nuclear program as the single greatest threat to American national security and to global security.

Let me just say that I hear what the chairman is saying. I certainly am a strong supporter of international narcotics funding, but the question is: Where do you put the money? The International Narcotics funding account is well funded and…

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I think the gentleman is trying to put money in place for something with which I agree. It is not that I disagree with it, but I disagree with where he is taking the money from. I think that is the problem with it. Hopefully, we can, when…

It is now my pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey), my esteemed colleague, friend, and ranking member of the Appropriations Committee. We have districts that are adjoining.

This measure isn't about taking sides in Kenya's politics but instead reaffirms the importance of our partnership with Kenya and our support for the people of that country as they go to the polls.

I also am grateful to Mr. Smith of New Jersey and Ms. Bass of California, the chair and ranking members of the Africa Subcommittee, who are lead co-sponsors of this legislation.

It is now my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), a respected member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

I now yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Maxine Waters), the ranking member of the Financial Services Committee.

I now yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Sherman), one of my senior colleagues on the Foreign Affairs Committee, the ranking member of the Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee.

Why can we not exchange that? Are there technical obstacles to developing new standards for call certification?

What concerns me now is that we have seen escalating military activity on a number of fronts.

I have to say that none of us envisioned we would still be relying on it nearly two decades later to fight an enemy that didn't even exist when the Twin Towers came down.

The role of Congress in authorizing and overseeing the use of American military force around the world is really such an important issue.

I think it needs to be bipartisan.

Congressman Eliot Engel has been a long-time champion of this legislation, as you know, with Congressman Pat Tiberi of the Ways and Means Committee.

I think some special funding should be found for this because it would go a long way and it is crazy while Cuba and Venezuela are there and China is there, the United States, which is so close, is not.

One of the things that I have been pushing for for a long time, and I continue to be shocked that the United States still has no diplomatic presence in five key countries in the eastern Caribbean.

If President Trump does not extend TPS, 50,000 Haitian Americans will be sent back to the poorest country in the hemisphere.