Eliot Engel

You're really on the wrong side of history here.

It is the law, and frankly, I find it disconcerting that my Republican colleagues have done nothing but root for this law to fail.

I think that's a pretty powerful statement for why we need affordable healthcare for all of our citizens.

My Republican colleagues are actually rooting for the sky to fall.

My Republicans colleagues' actions here remind me of a story I read when I was a little boy and that's the story of 'Chicken Little' who ran around yelling the sky is falling, the sky is falling, but unlike 'Chicken Little' my Republican…

I think these actions make it tougher for us to influence them, not easier.

I condemn the violence used to break up opposition sit-ins last August and urge the military to refrain from using similar tactics in the future.

Morsi famously promised to rule for all Egyptians but upon taking office he failed to uphold basic democratic values.

Freedom of the press remains stifled, the economy is rattled by instability and religious minorities don't feel safe in their own communities.

For the time being, the Egyptian military's recent removal of President Morsi has replaced one autocratic government with another.

We should learn from our mistakes and, more importantly, Egyptians must learn from their mistakes.

It just seems to me it's not very wise to risk alienating our traditional allies and friends including Egypt, Israel and the Gulf States.

I really think it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I think there are numerous benefits to this law, and I want to see the American people utilize this law, because I happen to think it is a good law.

Even if a program gets off to a rocky start, it does not mean that we need to jump to conclusions about its long-term success.

I hope that I can see these same colleagues starting to champion the Medicaid expansion in their home States.

It is of no value, as a matter of fact, it is a negative value and of questionable ethical value I think if people only spend their time criticizing the glitches.

It is too big of a program, it is too important to too many people not to do that.

I want to thank other members who contributed as well. I want to single out Mr. Grayson for his positive contribution to the bill.

We need to send a message to the world that we take Hague compliance in returning abducted children back to the United States very seriously.

There are few crimes more heart wrenching than child abduction.

The purpose of the legislation before us today is to fill those gaps.

The findings in the GAO report were alarming, and to make matters worse, Congress and specifically members of this committee were not consulted nor briefed over these serious deficiencies in our programming.

The American people deserve better, and, more importantly, the Haitian people deserve better. So, yes, colleagues, this is a scandal.

This backlog of funding and the amount of money left in the pipeline for Haiti is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and I am concerned that the team in place cannot handle the oversight over these crucial funds.