Eliot Engel

I question and say, well, what is Cuba's responsibility? We wanted to invite them, but what are they willing to do in order to get invited?

I must say that President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the rest of the U.S. team performed very well and represented our country with distinction.

I couldn't agree with you more, and you gave me the answer I wanted, so thank you very much.

Do you believe that the majority of drug shortages in the controlled-substance category can be effectively prevented if the Attorney General addresses this request within the 30-day window?

I am concerned about development without proper fiscal, political, and environmental safeguards.

I take those responsibilities very seriously, and obviously, everything is a balance.

I believe very strongly that the United States can never be totally free in our foreign policy and such similar matters unless we wean ourselves off of oil that we get from unfriendly nations.

I mean God bless them, but I don't think they need any help from the government anymore.

I believe if a car can run on ethanol, methanol, gasoline, natural gas, whatever, competition helps bring down prices.

I think you are doing a fine job and I think your agency is doing a fine job.

Iran... they are the principle threat to peace and stability at this time, the leading supporter of terrorism around the world.

I rise in strong support of the en bloc amendment and I would like to briefly discuss a few of the bills.

I was glad to read in today's cable blog that the Obama administration is moving to provide direct assistance to the internal opposition in Syria for the first time.

We have added a provision that would deny visas to executives, shareholders, and other senior officials of companies... that continue to arm the Assad regime.

This bill will certainly help us accomplish the first by tightening the financial noose around Assad's neck.

We want to make sure that our actions in this body, to the extent possible, provide incentives for democratic forces, not discourage them.

I will be offering an amendment that will call for Bashar al-Assad and senior regime officials to be referred to an international tribunal.

No issue concerns me more deeply than that of the disposition of Syria's weapons of mass destruction.

I applaud the administration, and urge us to move ahead with all speed.

Innocent civilians are again dying by the thousands in Syria and it is time that Congress act

We need to increase the pressure on the Assad regime and this bill does just that.

It is such nonsense to try to point the finger politically at the President of the United States and say that there is rising gasoline prices because of him.

I think that should be a priority, and I was also disappointed to see that significant reductions were made to various HHS agencies including the CDC.

I think we need to be training more physicians and adequately supporting our teaching hospitals, not cutting their funding.

I was disappointed to see that the President's budget included a 10 percent cut to indirect medical education funding.