Eliot Engel

I have been for closing Indian Point. I am convinced it would never be approved at its current location if it were to be built today.

Climate change is real. There is already enough CO2 in the atmosphere to ensure that the U.S. will have more episodes of climate disruption.

I want to tell you that I appreciate the President's budget. It makes a strong commitment to clean energy.

We strongly believe that having an Embassy in Havana will enable us to do more things that help us more effectively empower the Cuba people.

There is nothing in what we decided on the 17th that we believe is a concession to the Cuban Government.

Thank you very much, Chairman Royce.

I believe there are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle that have political courage to do the right thing.

I agree with both of those proposals. And he said that in doing that, he would get the money by asking the very wealthiest to pay just a little bit more.

It is something that we need to continue to talk to the Chinese about.

This is not an issue just for the United States. This is an issue for the whole region.

We can have an impact on commercial banks in China.

The bottom line is that there needs to be an impact on the family that runs the county, the Kim family.

The recalcitrance, cruelty, and unpredictability of the Kim regime makes North Korea one of the toughest challenges we face on the global stage.

It is very important for us, whenever possible, to have one voice in international affairs.

Thank you for calling this briefing on the threat that North Korea's nuclear missile and cyber capabilities pose to our national security and that of our friends and allies in the Asia Pacific region.

The United Nations has found no parallel in the contemporary world for the treatment of people in North Korea

The way in which a country treats its own people will sometimes tell us how they will treat others

This rogue regime has no interest in being a responsible state

The way Mr. Engel and myself and the members here on the committee have been able to advance the idea that we work on a consensus and then move that forward with one voice overseas

I think there is a balance. But I do think that this is something that we should look at very seriously.

I care about the environment. We want to make sure that we can continue to export and increase the export, but I think it is a balance.

I like the idea of countering Mr. Putin. European countries are reluctant to stand up to him, because they need his oil.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

How do we measure progress in an efficacious way, not a feel-good way, not a check-the-box way?

I don't know anyone who seriously thinks that you can train effectively, even with successful vetting, 5,000 insurgents who are moderate and maybe secular, and they are going to be reintroduced to Syria and turn the tide.