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Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY17]
U.S. Representative, New York’s 17^th District

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Eliot Engel’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	New York [map]
District:	17^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Feb 18, 1947 / 62 years old

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On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Eliot Engel has represented New York’s 17^th congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Eliot Engel:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Representative	New York’s 17^th	(was preceeded by Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY8])
1989-1992	U.S. Representative	New York’s 19^th	(was preceeded by Mario Biaggi)

Sponsorship Analysis

Engel is a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Engel is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Engel’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Engel, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Engel and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Engel.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Engel's bills without Engel returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Eliot Engel missed 960 (8%) of 12533 votes since Jan 23, 1990. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Engel in 2007-2008 was $15,000 from employees of Monroe College. Eliot Engel’s net worth was between $3,004 and $85,000 in 2007, according to Engel’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Engel.

Committee Membership

Eliot Engel sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Eliot Engel has sponsored 161 bills since Jan 16, 1991 of which 142 haven't made it out of committee and 9 were successfully enacted. Engel has co-sponsored 2679 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Engel and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Engel’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 858: Congratulating the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) on its 40th anniversary and recognizing its significant accomplishments and contributions.
	H.R. 3994: Distracted Driving Prevention Act of 2009
	H.R. 3993: Calling Card Consumer Protection Act
	H.R. 4105: Healthy Air for Federal Workers Act
	H.R. 1517: To allow certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees who serve under an overseas limited appointment for at least 2 years, and whose service is rated fully successful or higher throughout that time, to be converted to a permanent appointment in the competitive service.

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