U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs

November 18, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, published the following op-ed today in the Miami Herald on the need for the United States to increase its presence in the Caribbean.

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• Read Rep. Engel's op-ed on the Miami Herald website here

November 14, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), chair of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations today announced that they have introduced legislation to improve American efforts to preserve cultural property around the world and cut off one source of funding to ISIL. The Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act (H.R. 5703) would take steps to coordinate efforts across government to preserve cultural artifacts where they may be threatened by conflict, instability, or natural disaster.

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• H.R. 5703, The Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act

November 13, 2014

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• Watch Rep. Engel's opening statement here

November 12, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) introduced H.R. 5681, legislation to extend the 1958 U.S.-U.K Mutual Defense Agreement to allow continued bilateral nuclear security cooperation.

November 12, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and senior member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today made the following statement on the agreement between President Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to limit carbon emissions. The two countries are the world’s largest energy consumers and together account for about 40 percent of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions.

November 12, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, upon their return from travel to Latin America, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), issued this joint statement after meeting in Bogotá with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday:

November 10, 2014

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, published the following op-ed today in Roll Call on President Obama's trip to Burma.

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• The article can be found online here

November 6, 2014

WASHINGTON – Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, authored the following Letter to the Editor in today’s New York Times, responding to David Jolly's Oct 31 news article “France Denies That It's Ready to Deliver Warship to Russia,” which reported that France's finance minister, Michel Sapin, said tthat the transfer of Mistral-class warships to Russia would depend on Moscow's playing "a positive role" in Ukraine.

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• Rep Engel's letter can be found in the New York Times here
• The original David Jolly article can be found here

November 6, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC—Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, wrote to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urging that the Alliance purchase or lease the Mistral-Class warships France plans to sell to Russia. Rep. Engel was joined by Rep. Michael Turner (R-OH), the Chair of the United States Delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Parliamentary Assembly;

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• A copy of the letter Rep. Engel sent to Secretary General Stoltenberg can be found here

November 3, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC—Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and senior Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement on the final report from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which concluded that nearly all global warming seen since the 1950s is man-made.

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• Read the UN Report Here