Mar 11, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today called on the State Department to address troubling crackdowns on freedom of expression in Cameroon. In a letter to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs...
Mar 11, 2019 | Press Releases
Bronx, NY—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement:“For the third year in a row, the President’s foreign affairs budget request is dead on arrival on Capitol Hill. It’s stunning that this...
Mar 8, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement:“It’s outrageous that the State Department rescinded its ‘Women of Courage’ award from Jessikka Aro, a journalist...
Mar 8, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on American citizen Paul Whelan’s continued detention and Russia’s denial of his right to consular access and support:“This week,...
Mar 8, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON—Today, the chairs of six committees in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced H. Con. Res. 24, a resolution expressing the sense of the Congress, that when completed, Special Counsel Mueller’s report should be made available to the public and to...
