Honorable Eliot L. 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 served in the New York Assembly from 1977 to 1988. He is a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the International Relations Committee. The following is from the November 22, 2003, House floor debate on the conference report on H.R. 1, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. I rise today in strong opposition to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act. When I came to Congress 15 years ago, one of my highest priorities…
