Eliot Engel
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"Eliot Lance Engel" is the United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party. His new district, District 16, contains parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, New York/Westchester County. In Westchester, it includes Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle, Scarsdale. Mamaroneck, Pelham (town), New York/Pelham, Pelham Manor, Larchmont, Tuckahoe (village), New York/Tuckahoe, Bronxville, Eastchester, Hastings-on-Hudson, Ardsley, New York/Ardsley, Hartsdale, and Rye City. In the Bronx, it includes Riverdale, Bronx/Riverdale, Woodlawn, Bronx/Woodlawn, Edenwald, Bronx/Edenwald, Baychester, Williamsbridge, Bronx/Williamsbridge, Van Cortlandt Village, Bronx/Van Cortlandt Village, and Wakefield, Bronx/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, New York/Westchester County, and Rockland County, New York/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.

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The president filled (FEMA) with political hacks — I can think of no other word — and people who were not qualified or up to the job of doing this.

That's a change in the attitude from a week, two weeks, a month ago, ... We've made progress. I think the Army is giving these ladies the proper respect.

I voted to support the war in Iraq and want to do nothing that appears to undermine our president, ... But I feel that I cannot sit idly by and just watch the United States be bogged down in a guerrilla war in Iraq with more and more American casualties every day.

This has the effect of pulling the rug out from under the administration in trying to forge an agreement on Kosovo.

They don't like the Ken Starr witch hunt. ... They think (Clinton) has been doing a good job, ... The Clinton-haters will never be satisfied.

All the people in my district think he should stay in office.

Syria's record on terrorism in my estimation is worse than even Iraq's.

Large corporations in the Midwest will be thanking drivers in New York for purchasing gas. The [bill] is a boon to mega-companies in mid-America, like Archers Daniels Midland, that produce corn for ethanol.