Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY-17)

Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY-17)
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281 points	1119 points	52 points	71.7% points	.280 points

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Bronx Democratic Leader Calls for Unity

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H.R.3402 Eliot Engel 14 Cosponsors 30 points	Calling Card Consumer Protection Act To require accurate and reasonable disclosure of the terms and conditions of prepaid telephone calling cards and services. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.7241 Eliot Engel 9 Cosponsors 5 points	To preserve access to healthcare under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Referred to House committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.6199 Eliot Engel 28 Cosponsors 9 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 245 North Main Street in New City, New York, as the "Kenneth Peter Zebrowski Post Office Building". Cleared for White House on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.5265 Eliot Engel 123 Cosponsors 16 points	Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for research with respect to various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Becker, congenital, distal, Duchenne, Emery-Dreifuss facioscapulohumeral, limb-girdle, myotonic, and oculopharyngeal, muscular dystrophies. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.6702 Eliot Engel 10 Cosponsors 5 points	Securing Our Borders and Our Data Act of 2008 To impose requirements with regard to border searches of digital electronic devices and digital storage media, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, September 29, 2008

H.RES.1254 Eliot Engel 34 Cosponsors 5 points	Supporting the values and goals of the "Joint Action Plan Between the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Government of the United States of America to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Promote Equality", signed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brazilian Minister of Racial Integration Edson Santos on March 13, 2008. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 9, 2008
H.R.6559 Eliot Engel 3 Cosponsors 5 points	OFS Act To require automobile manufacturers to ensure that not less that 80 percent of the automobiles manufactured or sold in the United States by each such manufacturer to operate on fuel mixtures containing 85 percent ethanol, 85 percent methanol, or biodiesel. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.R.6571 Eliot Engel 1 Cosponsors 5 points	Healthy Air for Federal Workers Act To prohibit smoking near executive, legislative, and judicial branch buildings and entryways. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.R.6486 Eliot Engel 4 Cosponsors 5 points	Drug Testing Integrity Act of 2008 To prohibit the manufacture, marketing, sale, or shipment in interstate commerce of products designed to assist in defrauding a drug test. Referred to House committee on Monday, July 14, 2008
H.R.759 Eliot Engel 12 Cosponsors 16 points	To redesignate the Ellis Island Library on the third floor of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the "Bob Hope Memorial Library". Senate floor actions on Wednesday, June 11, 2008
H.CON.RES.328 Eliot Engel 38 Cosponsors 1 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of the National Day of Silence with respect to anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender name-calling, bullying, and harassment faced by individuals in schools. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, April 28, 2008
H.R.1784 Eliot Engel 12 Cosponsors 5 points	PLEA Act To protect the Nation's law enforcement officers by banning the Five-seveN Pistol and 5.7 x 28mm SS190 and SS192 cartridges, testing handguns and ammunition for capability to penetrate body armor, and prohibiting the manufacture, importation, sale, or purchase of such handguns or ammunition by civilians. House committee/subcommittee actions on Thursday, April 17, 2008
H.R.3692 Eliot Engel 30 Cosponsors 5 points	Social Investment and Economic Development for the Americas Act of 2007 To authorize the establishment of a Social Investment and Economic Development Fund for the Americas to provide assistance to reduce poverty, expand the middle class, and foster increased economic opportunity in the countries of the Western Hemisphere, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, January 11, 2008
H.R.4320 Eliot Engel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to strengthen the Medicaid third-party liability requirements. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, December 6, 2007
H.R.1567 Eliot Engel 105 Cosponsors 25 points	To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide increased assistance for the prevention, treatment, and control of tuberculosis, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Tuesday, November 6, 2007
H.R.2295 Eliot Engel 273 Cosponsors 40 points	ALS Registry Act To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry. Read the second time on Wednesday, October 31, 2007
H.RES.651 Eliot Engel 28 Cosponsors 5 points	Recognizing the warm friendship and expanding strategic relationship between the United States and Brazil, commending Brazil on successfully reducing its dependence on oil by finding alternative ways to satisfy its energy needs, and recognizing the importance of the March 9, 2007, United States-Brazil Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on biofuels cooperation. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, October 9, 2007
H.RES.564 Eliot Engel 29 Cosponsors 5 points	Recognizing that violence poses an increasingly serious threat to peace and stability in Central America and supporting expanded cooperation between the United States and the countries of Central America to combat crime and violence. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, October 2, 2007
H.R.3533 Eliot Engel 238 Cosponsors 5 points	The Public and Teaching Hospital Preservation Act To extend by one year the moratorium on implementation of a rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnership under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program and on finalization of a Medicaid rule regarding graduate medical education. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, September 14, 2007
H.R.3326 Eliot Engel 101 Cosponsors 5 points	Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2007 To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States the option to provide Medicaid coverage for low-income individuals infected with HIV. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, August 2, 2007
H.R.2651 Eliot Engel 9 Cosponsors 5 points	Greenhouse Gas Accountability Act of 2007 To require large publicly traded companies and significant emitters of greenhouse gases to report their emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, July 17, 2007
H.CON.RES.126 Eliot Engel 11 Cosponsors 1 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of the Day of Silence with respect to discrimination and harassment faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals in schools. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, July 9, 2007
H.R.2804 Eliot Engel 0 Cosponsors 5 points	To repeal the prohibitions on United States assistance to countries that are parties to the International Criminal Court. Referred to House committee on Thursday, June 21, 2007
H.R.2725 Eliot Engel 3 Cosponsors 5 points	Alarm Customer VOIP Notification Act of 2007 To require the Federal Communications Commission to adopt regulations to protect subscribers to Internet protocol telephone services concerning the use of such services with alarm, security, and personal emergency response systems. Referred to House subcommittee on Thursday, June 14, 2007
H.R.251 Eliot Engel 30 Cosponsors 30 points	Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007 To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of caller identification information, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, June 13, 2007
H.R.2567 Eliot Engel 43 Cosponsors 5 points	Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2007 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of home infusion therapy under the Medicare Program. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, June 12, 2007
H.RES.418 Eliot Engel 28 Cosponsors 5 points	Recognizing and welcoming the delegation of Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Foreign Ministers from the Caribbean to Washington, D.C., and commending the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for holding the Conference on the Caribbean. Passed/agreed to in House on Monday, June 11, 2007
H.R.2566 Eliot Engel 22 Cosponsors 5 points	National Digital Television Consumer Education Act To provide American consumers information about the broadcast television transition from an analog to a digital format. Referred to House subcommittee on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
H.R.2241 Eliot Engel 6 Cosponsors 5 points	Diabetes Treatment and Prevention Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to prevention and treatment of diabetes, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Wednesday, May 9, 2007
H.RES.309 Eliot Engel 17 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should support independence for Kosovo. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
H.R.1544 Eliot Engel 4 Cosponsors 5 points	GEDI Act To establish an Advisory Committee on Gestational Diabetes, to provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, March 16, 2007
H.RES.209 Eliot Engel 10 Cosponsors 1 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of Anti-Slavery Day. Referred to House committee on Thursday, March 1, 2007
H.RES.197 Eliot Engel 63 Cosponsors 1 points	Commending Vice President Al Gore on his well-deserved recognition for the Academy Award-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth". Referred to House committee on Tuesday, February 27, 2007
H.R.670 Eliot Engel 83 Cosponsors 5 points	Dependence Reduction through Innovation in Vehicles and Energy Act To promote the national security and stability of the United States economy by reducing the dependence of the United States on foreign oil through the use of alternative fuels and new vehicle technologies, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Friday, February 2, 2007

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H.R.948 Ed Markey 32 Cosponsors 3 points	Social Security Number Protection Act of 2007 To strengthen the authority of the Federal Government to protect individuals from certain acts and practices in the sale and purchase of Social Security numbers and Social Security account numbers, and for other purposes. House Committee on Ways and Means Granted an extension for further consideration... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.1746 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 44 Cosponsors 0 points	Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2007 To require disclosure of Holocaust-era policies by insurers and establish a federal cause of action for claims arising out of a covered policy. House Committee on Judiciary Granted an extension for further consideration endi... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.642 Stephanie Jones 101 Cosponsors 0 points	College Fire Prevention Act To establish the Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones Fire Suppression Demonstration Incentive Program within the Department of Education to promote installation of fire sprinkler systems, or other fire suppression or prevention technologies, in qualified student housing and dormitories, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.5443 Ed Royce 51 Cosponsors 0 points	United States-Republic of Korea Defense Cooperation Improvement Act of 2008 To improve defense cooperation between the Republic of Korea and the United States. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.CON.RES.371 Robert Wexler 32 Cosponsors 3 points	Strongly supporting an immediate and just restitution of, or compensation for, property illegally confiscated during the last century by Nazi and Communist regimes. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, October 2, 2008

H.R.6357 John Dingell 12 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend the Public Health Service Act to promote the adoption of health information technology, and for other purposes. House Committee on Ways and Means Granted an extension for further consideration... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.6598 John Conyers 119 Cosponsors 1 points	Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption. House Committee on Agriculture Granted an extension for further consideration en... on Thursday, October 2, 2008
H.R.1424 Patrick Kennedy 270 Cosponsors 27 points	Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
H.R.7081 Howard Berman 8 Cosponsors 36 points	United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act To approve the United States-India Agreement for Cooperation on Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, and for other purposes. Cleared for White House on Wednesday, October 1, 2008
H.R.1343 Gene Green 247 Cosponsors 0 points	Health Centers Renewal Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide additional authorizations of appropriations for the health centers program under section 330 of such Act, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Tuesday, September 30, 2008
H.R.6748 Nita Lowey 6 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to limit the number of Urban Area Security Initiative grants awarded and to clarify the risk assessment formula to be used when making such grants, and for other purposes. Referred to House subcommittee on Monday, September 29, 2008
H.RES.389 Donald Payne 50 Cosponsors 0 points	Supporting the goals and ideals of Malaria Awareness Day. Passed/agreed to in House on Saturday, September 27, 2008
H.R.758 Rosa DeLauro 222 Cosponsors 24 points	Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2007 To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations. Received in the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.1532 Gene Green 58 Cosponsors 8 points	Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act of 2007 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to making progress toward the goal of eliminating tuberculosis, and for other purposes. Received in the Senate on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.6045 Peter Visclosky 170 Cosponsors 12 points	Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2008 To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2012. House floor actions on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.RES.988 Jim Matheson 88 Cosponsors 0 points	Designating the month of March 2008 as "MRSA Awareness Month". Passed/agreed to in House on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.7090 Anna Eshoo 70 Cosponsors 3 points	Act to Save America's Forests To amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and related laws to strengthen the protection of native biodiversity and ban clearcutting on Federal land, to designate certain Federal land as Ancient forests, roadless areas, watershed protection areas, and special areas where logging and other intrusive activities are prohibited, to transfer administrative jurisdiction of Giant Sequoia National Monument to the National Park Service, to consider areas for inclusion in the National Park System, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, September 25, 2008
H.R.1464 Tom Udall 88 Cosponsors 0 points	Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2007 To assist in the conservation of rare felids and rare canids by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of nations within the range of rare felid and rare canid populations and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of rare felid and rare canid populations. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.CON.RES.426 Maxine Waters 52 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Minority AIDS Initiative. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.CON.RES.428 Steve Rothman 5 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress that the United Nations should take immediate steps to improve the transparency and accountability of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in the Near East to ensure that it is not providing funding, employment, or other support to terrorists. Referred to House committee on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.RES.1000 Michael Doyle 58 Cosponsors 0 points	To commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Naming of Pittsburgh as the culmination of the Forbes Campaign across Pennsylvania and the significance this event played in the making of America, in the settlement of the Continent, and in spreading the ideals of freedom and democracy throughout the world. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
H.RES.1314 Sander Levin 29 Cosponsors 3 points	Remembering the 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-1933 and extending the deepest sympathies of the House of Representative to the victims, survivors, and families of this tragedy, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1361 Howard Berman 25 Cosponsors 1 points	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should lead a high-level diplomatic effort to ensure that the Durban Review Conference serves as a forum to review implementation of commitments made at the 2001 Durban Conference to combat all forms of racism by defeating the campaign by some members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to divert the United Nation's Durban Review Conference from a review of problems in their own and other countries by attacking Israel, promoting anti-Semitism, and undermining the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1402 Joseph Crowley 41 Cosponsors 3 points	Supporting a transition to democracy through free, fair, credible, peaceful, and transparent elections in Bangladesh. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1381 Lucille Roybal-Allard 113 Cosponsors 0 points	Resolution expressing the sense of the House that there should be an increased public and private commitment prioritizing prevention and public health for all people in the United States. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.RES.1483 Dan Burton 1 Cosponsors 0 points	Regarding the recent decision by the President to declare Venezuela and Bolivia as nations that have "failed demonstrably" to meet their international commitments to combat the production and trafficking of illicit drugs. Referred to House committee on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
H.CON.RES.163 Heather Wilson 104 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing the sense of Congress in support of further research and activities to increase public awareness, professional education, diagnosis, and treatment of Dandy-Walker syndrome and hydrocephalus. Passed/agreed to in Senate on Monday, September 22, 2008
H.R.176 Barbara Lee 58 Cosponsors 0 points	Shirley A. Chisholm United States-Caribbean Educational Exchange Act of 2007 To authorize the establishment of educational exchange and development programs for member countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders on Monday, September 15, 2008
H.CON.RES.344 Sheila Jackson-Lee 48 Cosponsors 3 points	Recognizing the disproportionate impact of the global food crisis on children in the developing world. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, September 11, 2008
H.R.2452 Tim Bishop 57 Cosponsors 0 points	Raw Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that publicly owned treatment works monitor for and report sewer overflows, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.3021 Ben Chandler 140 Cosponsors 0 points	21st Century High-Performing Public School Facilities Act To direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to State educational agencies for the modernization, renovation, or repair of public school facilities, and for other purposes. Referred to Senate committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.6340 Nita Lowey 28 Cosponsors 27 points	To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 300 Quarropas Street in White Plains, New York, as the "Charles L. Brieant, Jr., Federal Building and United States Courthouse". Passed/agreed to in Senate on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.R.6827 Brad Sherman 10 Cosponsors 3 points	Enable Divestment from Sudan and Iran Act of 2008 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for rollover of gain from divesting certain qualified securities of business entities engaged in Iran or Sudan discouraged activities. Referred to House committee on Friday, August 1, 2008
H.CON.RES.361 Janice Schakowsky 66 Cosponsors 0 points	Commemorating Irena Sendler, a woman whose bravery saved the lives of thousands during the Holocaust and remembering her legacy of courage, selflessness, and hope. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 31, 2008
H.RES.1370 Howard Berman 19 Cosponsors 1 points	Resolution calling on the Government of the People's Republic of China to immediately end abuses of the human rights of its citizens, to cease repression of Tibetan and Uighur people, and to end its support for the Governments of Sudan and Burma to ensure that the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games take place in an atmosphere that honors the Olympic traditions of freedom and openness. Passed/agreed to in House on Wednesday, July 30, 2008
H.RES.194 Steve Cohen 119 Cosponsors 0 points	Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African-Americans. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
H.R.2140 Shelley Berkley 72 Cosponsors 0 points	Internet Gambling Study Act To provide for a study by the National Academy of Sciences to identify the proper response of the United States to the growth of Internet gambling. House committee/subcommittee actions on Monday, July 28, 2008
H.R.3890 Tom Lantos 40 Cosponsors 10 points	An act to impose sanctions on officials of the State Peace and Development Council in Burma, to amend the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003 to prohibit the importation of gemstones and hardwoods from Burma, to promote a coordinated international effort to restore civilian democratic rule to Burma, and for other purposes. Presented to President on Friday, July 25, 2008
H.CON.RES.364 Barbara Lee 59 Cosponsors 0 points	Recognizing the Significance of National Caribbean-American Heritage Month. Referred to Senate committee on Thursday, July 24, 2008
H.R.6594 Carolyn Maloney 7 Cosponsors 3 points	To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and improve protections and services to individuals directly impacted by the terrorist attack in New York City on September 11, 2001, and for other purposes. Referred to House committee on Thursday, July 24, 2008
H.R.6226 Brian Higgins 35 Cosponsors 3 points	To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, as the "Stan Lundine Post Office Building". Referred to Senate committee on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
H.RES.1311 Chaka Fattah 74 Cosponsors 0 points	Expressing support for the designation of National GEAR UP Day. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
H.CON.RES.385 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 30 Cosponsors 3 points	Condemning the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July 1994, and for other purposes. Passed/agreed to in House on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
H.CON.RES.299 Ed Markey 106 Cosponsors 0 points