Eliot Engel

To my friends on the Republican side of the aisle, let me just say, have a little compassion. These children came here. They didn't decide to come here. They know no other country. Some of them can't even speak the language of the country…

I stand today in strong support of my legislation, the Truth in Caller ID Act. This legislation has been developed in an extremely bipartisan manner, and I want to thank and commend everybody who worked on it. I introduced this…

I rise in strong support of H.R. 4573, which pushes for the cancellation of debts owed by Haiti to multilateral financial institutions. I am honored to say that, last Friday, I traveled to Haiti. You can see the devastation in the…

I think it's really important that I put this on.

I want to thank all of our excellent witnesses. I want to thank Mr. Mack, as always, and I want to thank the chairs and the ranking members of the other subcommittees.

I think the Obama administration is today effectively reengaging in Latin America and hopefully will be able to describe our approach in a way that the region will more readily hear.

Expanding ties to Ahmadinejad who denies the Holocaust and calls for the destruction of another nation's state, Israel, is not the way to get there.

This committee... sent a very strongly worded letter to President Chavez signed by 11 Democrats and nine Republicans.

I think now is the time. It is always the right time to speak out against anti-Semitism.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The relationship between a conservative, theocratic government, like Iran, and a number of secular leftist governments in Latin America seems rather unnatural to me.

I hope that Senator DeMint rethinks his position and lifts these holds so we can more effectively engage our partners on the dangers of Iran.

I am delighted that the three subcommittees are working together on Iran in the Western Hemisphere.

We need to remind our friends in Latin America that the United States has provided trillions in trade, billions in aid; whereas, Iran promises but, aside from making investments that are in its own interests, does almost nothing.

What is really pathetic is that Anderson Cooper apparently doesn't share my enthusiasm for participating in such a historic and wonderful celebration of democracy. I'm sorry he's so jaded.

What's really pathetic is that Anderson Cooper apparently doesn't share my enthusiasm for participating in such a historic and wonderful celebration of democracy. I'm sorry he is so jaded.

I rise today in support of six excellent pieces of legislation that would benefit our Nation's veterans. Unfortunately, due to a family medical emergency, I am unable to be present and vote for these bills today. However, had I been here…

For the balance of my time I would like my friend, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Regula), the chairman of the subcommittee, to engage me in a brief colloquy. Mr. Chairman, as I mentioned before, I intend to withdraw this amendment, but I…

I want to address a very serious subject, though, Mr. Speaker, and that is the violence which took place yesterday; ethnic clashes in Kosovo in the Balkans between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs. I chair the Albanian Issues Caucus in…

Let me ask the gentleman also, the existing statutory standard for approval of a plan containing a gasoline requirement is that ``other control measures are unreasonable or impractical.'' Would this amendment alter that standard in any way?

The only thing I wanted to add, Mr. Speaker, was that the gentleman pointed out that so many people from New York City and the suburbs of New York lost their lives. Both Senators from New Jersey were there today at Ground Zero, and the…

I think it has been very, very clear that not only is Yasir Arafat not the solution to stopping terrorism in the Middle East, he is the problem. He is the one that is sanctioning the terror in the Middle East. Three-quarters of the…

I would like to to thank my colleague and fellow New Yorker, Mr. Fossella, for introducing this resolution designating September 11 as Patriot Day. Like December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001 will forever live in infany. Our country has been…

We need to hire 100,000 new teachers. We want to get our schools' classes down in size so there are no more than 18 students per class. We will need to build new schools, hire 100,000 teachers and fix and repair crumbling school buildings…

This vote defines what kind of a Nation we want to be. There is no doubt that business will make a lot of money if this bill passes; but are we only for the almighty dollar, or are we for morality and doing what is right? The almighty…