Honorable Eliot 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 serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and is the ranking Democratic member on the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. The following is excerpted from a statement during the November 15, 2012, House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on “Benghazi and Beyond: What Went Wrong on September 11, 2012, and How to Prevent It From Happening at Other Frontline Posts.” We ought never to forget that the work of diplomacy has risks and that our Foreign Service officers…
