Eliot Engel

I'm concerned that [Pakistan] continues to play a double game, fighting terrorism that has a direct impact inside Pakistan, and supporting it in places like India and Afghanistan.

NATO needs to permanently station a brigade in Poland, and the Baltic States and every ally need to get above the 2 percent requirement for their defense spending.

I'm encouraged by the President's commitment of significant additional resources to the defense of Europe.

I don't understand why the funding request from last year hasn't gone up.

Women need the right tools and information to choose whether and when to have children.

We should continue standing with Colombia's people and government as they build a peaceful future.

We should support the President's billion-dollar request for Central America.

We will never acquiesce to his illegal occupation of Crimea, and his aggression in Ukraine will not be tolerated.

We work very hard on this committee to make and keep it the most bipartisan committee in Congress because, when it comes to foreign policy, our differences really should stop at the water's edge.

I also support the measure sponsored by Mr. Lieu and Mr. Poe which recognizes the importance of the economic ties between the United States and our ally, Israel.

This resolution calls on Iran's leaders to live up to their word and help us find Mr. Levinson.

I want to thank Mr. Deutch for offering this measure and for his hard work on trying to bring Mr. Levinson home.

I hope this committee will give the President's proposal serious consideration.

The situation in Puerto Rico is both an economic crisis and a healthcare crisis

I think it is a waste of time.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

I fully expect that Europe will continue to comply with the deal that we have struck.

I think what you are hearing is the frustration that while we seem to be in many instances talking tough about Iran, in reality we are, our actions are far away from our rhetoric.

They paint a picture of just reluctance on our part, of us not really leading.

Doesn't it seem like we just keep backtracking and backtracking?

I hope we will soon take up an authorization for the use of military force, which gives the President what he needs to grapple with this threat.

I have been calling on aiding the Free Syrian Army, and I believe that when we didn't aid them, they withered on the vine and ISIS moved into the void.

We must defeat ISIS, but we cannot and should not do it alone.

You have notched another remarkable achievement by working to negotiate the release of five American prisoners who were wrongly held by Iran.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and to our witness, welcome to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Special Envoy McGurk.