Eliot Engel

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Eliot Engel

Eliot Lance Engel (* 18th February 1947 in New York City ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party and since 1989 a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the State of New York .

biography

Eliot Engel was born in the Bronx , New York . Engel is the grandson of Ukrainian Jews who emigrated to the United States. In 1969 he graduated from Lehman College with a Bachelor of Arts in history . There he also received his master's degree . He also earned a degree in law at New York Law School . He then worked as a teacher at a junior high school . Until his election to the House of Representatives in 1989, he was a member of the New York State Assembly for twelve years .

In 1988 he was elected to the House of Representatives to succeed Mario Biaggi for New York's nineteenth congressional district, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1989. The district is made up of parts of the Bronx, Westchester County, and Rockland County . As he was re-elected in all subsequent elections, including the one in 2016, he can continue to exercise his mandate today. Its last legislative term ran until January 3, 2019. As a result of the restructuring of the New York State constituencies, its district was given different numbers several times. Until 1993 he therefore represented the 19th, then until 2013 the 17th constituency. Since 2013 he has been the representative of the 16th electoral district.

In the House of Representatives he was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and as a ranking member in the Committee on Foreign Affairs , where he was considered a hawk and hardliner on foreign policy, with major financiers in the arms and defense industries such as Northrop Grumman , Boeing , Lockheed Martin , Raytheon and General Atomics . He headed the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians for several years. Engel voted for the Iraq war under George W. Bush and against the nuclear deal with Iran under Barack Obama . Voters demonstrated in his offices against his environmental policies and his refusal to accept the promise of no money from the fossil fuel industry ("No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge").

In June 2020, during protests in response to the police murder of George Floyd , Engel lost, double-digit deficit in the Democratic primary, to his left challenger Jamaal Bowman , who was supported by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez .

Engel is married and lives in the Bronx.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jamaal Bowman's Campaign Is More Than Exciting , June 23, 2020, The Cut
  2. ^ Jewish Congress veteran before voting , June 24, 2020, Jüdische Allgemeine
  3. ^ Eliot Engel's real record on the environment in DC , December 1, 2019, The Riverdale Press
  4. ^ Jamaal Bowman on how Congress can dismantle institutional racism , July 1, 2020, Vox Media
  5. ↑ Primary elections in the USA: a political earthquake , June 25, 2020, jacobin.de

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personal data
SURNAME Angel, Eliot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel, Eliot Lance (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City