Congressman Engel is the Chairman on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He also serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee including the Subcommittee on Health. He is the founder and Co-Chair of the House Energy and National Security Caucus, which is seeking clean, energy efficient alternatives to America’s over-reliance on oil. He also sits on the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, the Bipartisan Task Force for Combatting Anti-Semitism, the HIV/AIDS Caucus, the Long Island Sound Caucus, and the Animal Protection Caucus, among others.

Congressman Engel was born in the Bronx on February 18, 1947. He grew up in a city housing project and attended New York City public schools. In 1969, he graduated from Hunter-Lehman College with a B.A. in History and received a Master’s Degree in Guidance and Counseling in 1973 from Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York. In 1987, he received a law degree from New York Law School.

READ HIS BIO ON ENGEL.HOUSE.GOV

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VOA PUBLIC RELATIONS VIDEO

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) Testimonial on VOA, February 25, 2016