Eliot Engel

I fear that this budget request is sending a chilling shockwave across the globe, and that shockwave will come back on us.

That obviously would be a disaster. In fact, slashing our international engagement by even a fraction of that at a time when we are facing serious challenges around the world would be an absolute disaster.

This year we are going to have to put that idea to the test.

Congress, as we all say many times, is a co-equal branch of government and, according to the Constitution, we appropriate funds or you appropriate funds--we just don't have to roll over because any White House says so.

But President Trump, when asked about Putin in a recent interview, seemed actually to draw an equivalency between American policies and Putin's tactics.

Now, I have been around long enough to remember when a Republican President likened America to a shining city on a hill.

When we look at Putin's goals we see a clear aim of tearing down the United States and Western democracy and institutions, to cast aspersions on our values.

We need to call them out.

I think it is very obvious that Putin does not want to make America great again.

I would like to go on the record thanking Congressman Engel and Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen for their co-sponsorship of the bill and ongoing support to the region.

The North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program is designed for really one thing, regime survival, and to deter the United States of America.

What I would propose is that instead of decreasing our goals we increase our goals.

A freeze, as one of my colleagues said, legitimizes the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

We have to keep a lot of balls in the air, pressure the regime, keep China on board with existing sanctions...

We have to give them a roadmap, a path to that that meets our needs.

We cannot back away from this responsibility because the cost of failure in this case is just too great.

This is not a problem we can solve on our own; we need our allies, so keeping our promises to them matters for their security...

I worry about some of the new President's other comments that touch on this issue, that more countries should have access to nuclear weapons...

I hope for our sake he's asking the questions and shaping the policies that would forestall such a development.

The best minds working on this problem agree that North Korea is just a few years or even less from a weapon that could reach the United States.

With each test, the North Koreans learn more and more about how to perfect their illegal weapons.

The Kim regime's nuclear missile and offensive cyber capabilities are a problem for us and for our friends and allies in the Asia-Pacific.

My constituents are frightened. They are worried that their preventive services that the ACA guaranteed them free of charge are going to disappear.

It is easy to make promises, it is a lot harder to deliver progress as the Affordable Care Act has.

I truly believe that if they destroy the ACA there is going to be a lot of people in this country that are going to be angry and scared.