Honorable Eliot Engel
United States 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 serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and is the ranking Democratic member on the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. The following is from the July 31, 2013, House floor debate on H.R. 850, the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013. I think all of us agree that a nuclear-capable Iran would pose a grave threat to the United States, a threat to our allies in the region, and a threat to the future of the global nonproliferation…
