Eliot Engel

Eliminating the use of tobacco products amongst children and youth can play an important role in reducing these asthma-related costs.

The implementation of a Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act is critically important.

I urge all of our colleagues to support it.

To me, however, the brutal repression of the North Korean people, above all, warrants the enactment of this legislation.

This resolution urges the Government of Afghanistan to pursue a transparent, credible, and inclusive run-off Presidential election.

This bipartisan piece of legislation has over 135 co-sponsors.

Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and its victims are robbed of their freedom and dignity.

This measure provides broader and tougher sanctions against North Korea's illicit activities.

This bill would broaden U.S. sanctions against those helping sustain the regime in Pyongyang whose crimes against humanity the U.N. Human Rights Office says are, and I quote, "without parallel in the modern world."

President Obama has said that if a country is educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward.

It is so important for the United States to put our money where our mouth is in helping women in Pakistan.

I am particularly pleased that the substitute amendment contains language emphasizing the importance of consulting with and leveraging investments by the private sector and Pakistani diaspora communities in the United States.

New York will require approximately $29 billion over 20 years to ensure continued delivery of safe public drinking water.

There are just some mandates that just don't make sense that are costly, and the benefits are very, very minor compared to what the cost is.

I was one of several members of the New York delegation that wrote to Administrator Lisa Jackson urging a waiver of the regulation as it applies to Hillview.

The President I think has made it clear that the process of fracking has really opened up opportunities for clean, natural gas, but it has to be done safe and responsibly.

In closing, let me, again, say what a pleasure it is to work with Chairman Royce on a bipartisan basis. You can see, again, strong bipartisan support for this bill. Ms. Kaptur didn't mention that she was cochair of the Ukrainian Caucus. We…

May I inquire about how much time each of us has? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Holding). The gentleman from New York has 8 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from California's time has expired.

It is now my pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the Democratic whip.

I now yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Connolly), a very distinguished member of our committee.

Our constituents, the first thing that's important to them is the bottom line in terms of what they pay.

The average person in my district hears about fracking and they go crazy because they think it's going to ultimately contaminate their drinking water.

I think that by and large we would have to be crazy not to consider it.

The average consumer out there, the average constituent that all of us has cares a lot about what happens in the Ukraine, as I do.

Over the past decade, Russia has used its gas resources as a weapon to settle political disputes.