Gregory Meeks

If you don't comply with the regulatory regime, you don't get to operate a financial services business, right?

There are a lot of people who feel like there is an Operation Choke Point 2.0 going on.

I must say that I am deeply concerned by some of my colleagues who paint the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan with such broad strokes as to divorce the emergency evacuation from those choices and the full context that led up to the events…

I believe that we are deluding ourselves if we believe that this could have been as an easy operation given the deteriorating security situation and rapidly changing events on the ground that no one could have predicted.

I want to particularly thank and also commend all of you who worked to help not only our Afghan allies and partners, but also for being advocates for the rights and pathways of refugees and immigrants more broadly.

In the post-9/11 era, diplomacy and development have regrettably not received the attention and resources they deserve. That must change.

I appreciate and thank the Chairman for his intention to honor that practice and allow me the autonomy to use the minority budget to best meet the unique needs that come with being in the minority.

I thank you for this opportunity to appear before the Committee with Chairman McCaul in support of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs' budget request for the 118th Congress.

I was proud, along with Representative Ami Bera and Representative Tom Cole, bipartisan way, to introduce the Countering Economic Coercion Act of 2023

I concur that I am very concerned about some of the conversations that we have had with China contemplating giving Russia weapons.

To use them to conclude that problematic transactions are taking place is both wrong and I believe disingenuous.

Again, we could have vigorous debate, but we are always friends and working together.

I do not believe we should be passing legislation without a waiver. The world is simply too unpredictable for Congress to sometimes permanently--permanently lock in the executive branch to sanctions policies.

That's not trying to come up to something where we can really work on something that's important.

Let me be clear on this. I believe concerns about TikTok by the United States government and our allies are justified.

Based on our conversations, I was really expecting your legislation to focus more narrowly on TikTok rather that the entire Chinese economy.

Despite being the world's second largest economy, the People's Republic of China often enjoys... the status of a developing country.

I will support this amendment, but I would like to point out that the administration has provided us this exact classified briefing already...

The bill is about the PRC's surveillance balloon and an effort to call the PRC out for its violations of U.S. sovereignty and it actually has nothing to do with Taiwan.

I hope my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will consider this amendment seriously.

My Republican colleagues are constantly telling us that we need to do more to counter China and criticize the President for not doing enough.

This is a simple amendment that I am offering to improve the legislation offered by my colleague, Representative Andy Barr.

Access to pre-IPO investment opportunities should not be reserved just for the wealthy.

Part of it is policy decisions that have overwhelmingly benefited the Chinese Communist Party.

We should want the same for our families.