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Eliot Engel
Eliot Engel, official photo portrait.jpg
Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2019
Preceded by Ed Royce
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from New York
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 1989
Preceded by Mario Biaggi
Constituency 19th district (1989–1993)
17th district (1993–2013)
16th district (2013–present)
Member of the New York State Assembly
from the 81st district
In office
March 7, 1977 – December 31, 1988
Preceded by Alan Hochberg
Succeeded by Stephen B. Kaufman
Personal details
Born Eliot Lance Engel
February 18, 1947 (age 71)
New York City, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Patricia Ennis
Children 3
Education Lehman College (BA, MA)
New York Law School (JD)
Eliot Lance Engel (/ˈɛŋɡəl/; born February 18, 1947) is the U.S. Representative for New York's 16th congressional district. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district, District 16, contains parts of the Bronx and Westchester County. In Westchester, it includes Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle, Scarsdale, Mamaroneck, Pelham, Pelham Manor, Larchmont, Tuckahoe, Bronxville, Eastchester, Hastings-on-Hudson, Ardsley, Hartsdale, and Rye City. In the Bronx, it includes Riverdale, Woodlawn, Edenwald, Baychester, Williamsbridge, Van Cortlandt Village, and Wakefield, and Co-op City. He represented the 19th District from 1989 to 1993, and the 17th District from 1993 to 2013. District 17 consisted of parts of the Bronx, Westchester County, and Rockland County.
In 2013, he became the ranking minority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, replacing Howard Berman, who lost his re-election bid in the 2012 elections.
Contents
1 Early life, education, and teaching career
2 New York State Assembly
3 U.S. House of Representatives
3.1 Elections
3.2 Committee assignments
3.3 Attendance at the State of the Union address
4 Political positions
4.1 Healthcare reform
4.2 Global health
4.3 Energy
4.4 Gun control
4.5 Other domestic issues
4.6 International affairs
4.6.1 Western Hemisphere Subcommittee
4.6.2 Middle East
4.6.3 Kosovo and the Balkans
4.6.4 Cyprus
4.6.5 Iraq War
4.6.6 Irish affairs
4.6.7 Human rights
4.6.8 Iran nuclear deal
5 Controversies
6 Grades and recognition
7 Electoral history
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Early life, education, and teaching career
Engel was born in the Bronx, the son of Sylvia (née Bleend) and Philip Engel, an ironworker. His grandparents, of Ukrainian Jewish background,[1] immigrated from the Russian Empire.[2] "
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