Eliot Engel

I believe that the Clean Power Plan is important because of the public health benefits associated with reductions in domestic emissions.

As your testimony shows, the international community has not yet formed a consensus on how to reduce cyber conflict.

I think it is urgent that we move quickly to address this challenge, because it is unlike any threat we have seen in the past.

For years, cyber attacks from overseas have posed a growing threat to the United States.

Their attacks are focused on Planned Parenthood--an organization that...has not violated any State or Federal laws.

The goal of this hearing is not to 'protect' anyone.

If it were, we would not be debating the merits of an organization that provides life-saving care to more than 2 million Americans, most of whom have nowhere else to turn.

The Majority has again chosen to spend precious legislative days reigniting the same tired battles of years past.

I now yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

We have made significant strides in our efforts to reform Medicaid, both in terms of cutting costs and improving the quality of care that patients receive.

Medicaid is something that is very, very important. It is a critical safety net.

I think that the most important--the obligation we have is to judge the deal on its own merits.

The new U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231...lifts the arms embargo on Iran after 5 years.

The implementation is going to require close scrutiny and verification.

Neither we, nor the Iranians, really trust each other to actualize the features of this deal.

I support it with reservations and I recommend your approval of the plan.

As far as I knew, these issues weren't even on the table, yet with this deal, a few years down the road Iran could be buying advanced weapons and building missiles and still be fully compliant with its obligations.

I believe the deal gives away too much when it comes to sanctions on advanced conventional weapon and ballistic missile development.

Unfettered access for inspectors is the only way we can be sure Iran stops its work toward a nuclear weapon.

I am not persuaded that this deal will give IAEA inspectors the access they need to do their jobs.

I cannot support the Iran nuclear deal. I have laid out the concerns that led me to that decision.

I would say that there have been no two stronger champions in this bipartisan effort than the two of you.

This has been an area of deep personal concern of mine.

I can't help but thinking if we had been there and had done it when it should have been done, might things have been different now in Syria?

I think our air power should have been used back then in order to degrade and slow or defeat them.