Eliot Engel

The Affordable Care Act makes health care affordable for the middle class and has halted a steady rise in health costs.

My Republican friends seem to be saying do as I say, not as I do.

CBO's net score for the Medicare Modernization Act was $394 billion, which included nearly $410 billion in new spending for the prescription drug benefit.

When Republicans passed the Medicare Modernization Act in 2003, they did not offset its costs.

In the same way when a baseball player hits a homer, it both adds one run to this team's score and also improves his batting average.

These actions will not save money, it will simply abdicate responsibility and shift costs to State providers and beneficiaries.

I thought that the sooner NATO did that, the better because in X amount of years you don't know, with Russia, whether it would be possible.

I think if the United States is not involved--I am not so sure we saw in Bosnia years ago, and then in Kosovo in 1999, when the United States didn't get involved, things tended not to go right.

It is important that we play a leading role in any talks between Serbia and Kosovo and that we work with our friends in the EU to ensure that Kosovo has a future which will allow integration into the key Euro-Atlantic structures.

Attacking anybody's religious institutions is abhorrent and should be condemned by everybody.

I have been a supporter of Kosovo independence for the 22 years I have been in Congress.

I frankly am happy. I hope that these talks will eventually be a basis where the two countries can reconcile.

I firmly believe that without the strong United States presence in Europe, we can't always count on everyone, without us, to do the right thing.

I would like to see Kosovo admitted to the EU and admitted, of course, to the U.N.

There has got to be some penalty for their behavior.

I have been very much chagrined because for the past 2 years the Palestinian leadership has refused to enter into direct talks with Israel.

I want to emphasize that. Thank you for saying that.

I happen to think that they have some nerve rejecting him, quite frankly, and so I want to know about the status of that.

I think it is unhelpful, frankly, in Middle East peace.

It doesn't seem fair to penalize Pepe Lobo, who I think is doing a very good job in terms of trying to get his country back to normal.

I really was disappointed in Honduras that the MCC compact was not renewed and I think it is especially egregious because a large reason why it was not renewed was because of the corruption that happened in the previous regime.

While those areas receive the most attention from the world's media, they are certainly no more important to the United States' national interest than what happens in Latin America.

It is going to take some getting used to because for the last 2 years, our roles were reversed with myself as chairman and Mr. Mack as ranking member.

I would like to ask a question about Egypt and also do Lebanon as well, because I wrote the Syria Accountability Act.

You know, in this country we do our political discourse with balance, not bullets. And although the assassin tried to murder a U.S. Congresswoman, he really was trying to stick a stake or murder American democracy. All of us on both sides…