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Congressman Eliot L. Engel issued the following statement

Congressman Eliot Engel, a member of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, has cosponsored the Disarm Hate Act, legislation designed to keep firearms out of the hands of people who have been convicted of hate crimes

Congressman Eliot L. Engel, a member of the House LGBT Caucus, issued the following statement on the one year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Shooting

Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, a leading member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and co-chair of the Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating anti-Semitism, today made the following statement welcoming the arrest made this morning in the Jewish Community Centers (JCC) bomb threats across the United States and Canada

Congressman Eliot L. Engel issued the following statement on the shooting earlier this week in Kansas that resulted in the death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an Indian immigrant

Congressman Eliot L. Engel, a leading member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement on the recent nightclub shooting in Mt. Vernon

Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, today welcomed Senate passage of his legislation calling for a top-to-bottom evaluation of U.S. drug policy in the Americas

Congressman Eliot Engel, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced The City of Yonkers has been awarded $147,354 in federal grant money from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program

Congressman Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement on House Republicans' failure to take action on gun violence, the Zika virus and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan

Congressman Eliot Engel, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement in response to this past week's shooting incidents across the country

Congressman Eliot Engel, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, decried the swatting incident that took place in Westchester County yesterday and renewed his call to bring his Anti-Swatting Act to the House floor for a vote

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to approve Congressman Eliot Engel's Anti-Swatting Act, unanimously agreeing to send the bill to the House floor

Congressman Eliot L. Engel, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement on today's Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on seven communications bills, including the Anti-Swatting Act, which Engel introduced in 2015

Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, called on the President to use his existing authority to stop the transport of certain weapons parts to Mexico, where they frequently fall into the hands of the country's brutal drug cartels

Congressman Eliot Engel, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is renewing calls for sensible gun legislation to help curtail rampant gun violence in America.

Congressman Eliot Engel, senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has reintroduced the Drunk Driving Repeat Offender Prevention Act, legislation that would require states to pass laws mandating the installation of ignition interlock devices in convicted drunk drivers' cars.

"And I want to add to what the Chairman said. Three years ago I put in a bill, which would have authorized the aiding and equipping of the Free Syrian Army. And I said this three years ago, and I say it now. I can't help but thinking if we had been there and had done it when it should have been done, might things have been different now in Syria. It's the Syrian people who are bearing the brunt of all the atrocities that are happening. And, I think the United States needs to be more than just a passive bystander.

"We remember the Srebrenica Genocide to honor the victims and to remind ourselves of the costs of indifference–of what can happen when we say, ‘well, that's somebody else's problem.' As this region of Europe heals, and I've just come back from the Balkans, and charts a course toward a brighter future, I hope the lessons of this tragedy will be a guide for the United States and for countries around the world fighting against tyranny and oppression.

"But now, true to form, Assad is testing the international community again. In September, the OPCW concluded, and I quote with "a high level, a high degree of confidence" unquote, that chlorine was used, and this is a quote again, "systematically and repeatedly" in attacks in northern Syria. Since then, more chlorine attacks have been reported. Though not as deadly as sarin, the use of weaponized chlorine is still a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

"Today, on this somber anniversary, the brutal events that took place twenty-six years ago go largely unacknowledged inside China. Yet, despite a quarter-century-long effort to conceal what occurred on that day, the world knows what happened, and we mourn the lives lost and futures unfulfilled.

Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at the full Committee markup of a bill to direct the President to develop a strategy to obtain observer status for Taiwan in the International Criminal Police Organization, and for other purposes (H.R. 1853), the Girls Count Act of 2015 (H.R. 2100), the United States International Communications Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 2323), a resolution condemning the April 2015 terrorist attack at the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, and reaffirming the United States support for the people and Government of Kenya (H.Res 235), and a resolution expressing deepest condolences to and solidarity with the people of Nepal following the devastating earthquake on April 25, 2015 (H.Res. 235).

"But as we will hear today, people are still suffering in ISIS-held territory. And I hope today's testimony will underscore for my colleagues the need to pass a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force–or AUMF. I have said this before, and I will say it again, and again, and again until Congress acts on its responsibility and passes a new authorizatio