Eliot Engel

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 4640 offered by the Honorable Eliot L. Engel

My letter calls for significant investments in State Department and USAID initiatives in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

Cracking down on children is clearly not the answer.

America is stronger when we have bipartisan support.

No single action to reduce carbon pollution will ever stop climate change but we will never address this problem without many individual actions, so these actions do add up to a meaningful difference.

I want to welcome and thank you, Administrator McCabe, for joining us here and for your testimony.

On May 24, 2011, President Obama issued a memorandum on Federal fleet performance that requires all new light- duty vehicles in the Federal fleet to be alternative fuel vehicles, such as hybrid, electric, natural gas, or biofuel, by…

The 21st Century Cures Initiative creates an important bipartisan opportunity for us to consider creative new approaches to incentivize getting new treatments into the hands of patients as quickly and safely as possible.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

Thank you very much for holding today's markup of the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission Act.

In closing, I would like to once again thank Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and Chairman Royce for helping to move this resolution forward in a timely manner. The Senate passed a similar resolution last week, and I am pleased that we will…

It is now my pleasure to yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wilson), the author of this resolution.

It is now my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), our Democratic leader.

In closing, I want to once again thank Chairman Royce, Representative Smith of New Jersey, and the Judiciary Committee for their hard work on this legislation. Again, I want to single out Representative Smith for being relentless in this…

I will point out we would have designated Boko Haram earlier had we not, I think correctly, taken into consideration the views of the Nigerian Government.

I am trying to understand the attitude of the Nigerian Government. It is acting as if it is almost disturbed that the whole world is now focused on Boko Haram.

I was in favor of declaring Boko Haram as a terrorist organization, but I want to address the undercurrent...

I regard Nigeria as our partner in this, and the United States needs to be helpful to them.

We must do everything in our power to bring those girls home.

Boko Haram is an Islamic extremist group, increasingly active since 2010.

I was an early and strong supporter of the Merida Initiative, and since 2008 Congress has appropriated over $2 billion in assistance to Mexico through that initiative.

The time to fix our system is now and we all know that if the Senate's bill came to a vote on the House floor this afternoon it would be on the President's desk this evening.

We must do much more to stop the illegal flow of firearms from the United States to Mexico.

The new measures to protect human rights... represent an important step forward.

I continue to be impressed by Mexican President, Enrique Pena Nieto.