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Press Releases 2008

• ENGEL ON RENT INCREASE: TOO HIGH AND UNDERSERVED

  05/13/08 The proposed rent increases for rent stabilized apartments threaten to put lower income people out in the street, Congressman Eliot Engel said, and he blamed the Bush Administration’s lack of a national oil policy for creating the problem. “Landlords,” he said, “blame the rising price of oil, and this Administration’s unwillingness to create a realistic oil policy is leading us down a road to ruin.”
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• ENGEL CASTIGATES TRAFFIC AGENTS FOR UNSAFE PRACTICES

  05/13/08 Congressman Eliot Engel wants traffic agents to be retrained in safety issues after learning of three incidents in which he was told traffic agents’ driving tactics endangered people.
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• ENGEL CHAIRS HEARING ON CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE MERIDA INITIATIVE

  05/08/08 Congressman Eliot Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, is chairing a hearing today on Central America and the Merida Initiative. The hearing also looks at the Appropriations Committee’s supplemental war spending bill that includes funding for both the Mexico and Central America portions of the Merida Initiative.
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How Congressman Engel can help you

• How Congressman Engel can help you

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