Eliot Engel

I think it is not so terrible to have Congress come up with new sanctions if we feel Iran is violating its agreements.

Yet, since implementation to today, we have heard a different message: No new sanctions.

I have to oppose this amendment. Sergei Magnitsky was a lawyer who worked to shine a light on corruption, fraud, and theft by authorities inside Russia.

This bill would authorize the President to sanction foreign individuals who commit gross violations of human rights, as well as government officials involved in significant acts of corruption.

Unfortunately, despite the payments of the German Government throughout the years, significant gaps in survivor care remain.

Today, we have a chance to ensure that this population, these survivors who made it through the darkest time in history, can live out their lives with the dignity they so deserve.

One of the great privileges I have serving in Congress is representing a large number of Holocaust survivors.

I would like to speak about H. Con. Res. 129, which calls upon Germany to fully fund the needs of aging Holocaust survivors.

There should be at least weekly charters for Liberty residents to Albania.

Camp Liberty has never been given adequate protection.

I sincerely believe Chancellor Merkel's heartfelt expression of concern about Germany's responsibility to survivors and leadership on moral issues will finally resolve this longstanding tragedy for survivors.

Survivors deserve better than that. They deserve to live out their days in dignity and comfort.

These survivors have lived through the unimaginable. The pain and suffering they have endured has left physical and mental scars that cannot be healed and horrifying memories that can never be forgotten.

The United States has a responsibility to help meet this challenge, both by helping people feed themselves and by taking a hard look at the root causes behind poverty, hunger, and instability.

I want to thank Mr. Smith for his leadership on this important legislation and urge members to help get it to the President's desk without further delay.

Amendment to H. Res. 650 offered by the Honorable Eliot L. Engel.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H. Res. 374 offered by the Honorable Eliot L. Engel, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York.

In closing, again I want to emphasize that Mexico is a vital partner to the United States in terms of trade, security, and a wide range of regional concerns. We need to keep all the channels between our countries flowing, and that includes…

Now, I am not losing sleep because Iran can't get its hands on huge sums of money, but it is worth asking now that the deal is going forward, why is Iran seeing just a trickle instead of a surge?

I was chuckling this morning that it occurs to me there's a lot of Iran expertise on Capitol Hill today.

When you take a massive bill like the Affordable Care Act, of course, there are going to be problems with it.

On April 29, 2016, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: On rollcall No. 178, Democratic Motion to Recommit H.R. 4901, I would have voted ``yes.'' On rollcall No. 179, Scholarships for Opportunity…

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

First is passing the Global Magnitsky Act. That is a catalytic piece of legislation, and we commend your original sponsorship of the bill, Mr. Chairman.

I am glad Mr. Machar has returned and consider this an important but modest step forward.