Honorable Eliot L. Engel
U.S. Representative, New York, Democrat
Representative Engel, of the Seventeenth District of New York, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988. He served as the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere in the 111th Congress. The following is excerpted from the July 29, 2010, Subcommittee hearing “The Crisis in Haiti: Are We Moving Fast Enough?” In March of this year, I visited Haiti to bear witness to the horrific loss of life and devastation that befell the country on January 12 [2010]. I surveyed the damage done to the land and physical structures of Haiti. It…
