Eliot Engel

Having the voices of survivors to help guide Federal policy, identify funding priorities, and offer technical assistance will improve our government's response to this horrific crime of modern day slavery.

We want to send a message to the Jordanian people we are with them in their fight against extremism.

This bill would strengthen this valuable program, and I urge my colleagues to support it.

I also support H.R. 1567, the Global Food Security Act.

It is critical we use all of the tools at our disposal, including border protection and passport controls, to protect our country.

I am deeply troubled by reports of Americans traveling to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and other terrorist organizations.

We must respond to the ongoing crisis in Syria and coordinate our efforts to protect cultural property before the next crisis erupts somewhere else in the world.

I strongly support the seven measures that make up this en bloc package.

We need to all work to go on offense in order to get that tool of communication.

I am deeply concerned about Iran's ballistic missile program and its destabilizing behavior in the region.

If these questions are not resolved in a way that satisfies these concerns, concerns that Congress has outlined repeatedly, then there are likely to be major, perhaps fatal, flaws in the final deal.

I have said this from day one, again and again publicly, and last week's markup in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee signaled an important shift in that direction.

Thank you for your courage and for your voice. It has been a pleasure to be your partner.

The Kremlin's disorientation campaign goes beyond political spin and disinformation.

It is estimated that Putin is spending more than $600 million a year to deride democratic pluralism.

This Russian campaign, what one witness describes as the 'weaponization of information,' seriously threatens U.S. security.

I couldn't agree with you more.

But an approved, with a strong bipartisan vote of an improved AUMF preserves and strengthens America's strategic leadership and also puts Daesh on notice that its end is in sight.

How important is it for Congress to pass a new AUMF and what would be the consequences if we did not do so?

I was one of the few people who thought it was a good AUMF.

I worry about Iran's role in Iraqi military operations because what does that portend for the political future of Iraq?

We are negotiating a deal with them. They continue to be a bad actor all over the Middle East and Yemen.

Congress would reassert the important role we are empowered to play by the Constitution.

By passing the new AUMF, our service members... would feel the full support of Congress.

I will resist any attempt to marginalize Congress fulfilling its constitution role.