Feb 28, 2015 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the murder of prominent Russian dissident Boris Nemtsov:“Yesterday’s brutal murder of Boris Nemtsov—literally in the...
Feb 27, 2015 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC—Today U.S. Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) announced introduction of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, a bipartisan bill that would enhance U.S. monitoring of Hong...
Feb 27, 2015 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he commissioned on the root causes of migration from Central America to...
Feb 27, 2015 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the murder of Bangladeshi-American writer Avijit Roy:“I’m shocked and saddened to learn of the brutal murder of Avijit...
Feb 27, 2015 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement at a markup of HR 757, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2015, which was approved unanimously by the...
