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      <excerpt>...plenty of time for us. I guess we have a lot to be grateful for that the election isn't next month or next week.&quot; Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said Democrats can boost their fortunes simply by doing what they promised last November. &quot;I think that Democrats</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...phoned her to say, &quot;I've been shot,&quot; sat in the pew behind Williams van Rooij.  Mayoral candidate William Thompson, Rep. Eliot Engel and other Bronx elected officials sat up front, and Gorman seemed to exhort them, as well as Mayor Bloomberg, who did no</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Democrats giving to Mr. Owens included Reps. Paul D. Tonko, D-Amsterdam, who gave $500; Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, who gave $1,000; Eliot Engel, D-Bronx, with $2,000; Nita M. Lowey, with $2,000; Michael A. Arcuri, D-Utica, with $1,000; Anthony M. Weiner,</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... The two lawmakers who spent the most on staff salaries during the first six months of the year were Democratic Reps. Eliot Engel of the Bronx and Maurice Hinchey of Hurley in Ulster County. Each spent more than $500,000. Freshman Rep. Dan Maffei, D-DeW</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...its relations with Iran, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Latin America subcommittee said. U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) convened a meeting of his subcommittee Tuesday to consider the reach of Iranian influence in Latin America. Much o</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...week, we noted the report in a Brazilian newspaper of a tense meeting between U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Latin America committee, and the Brazilian ambassador in DC over Brazil's new coziness with Iran. Engel, the report s</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>According to US Congressman Eliot Engel, Chairman of the US House of Representative Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...we can win.&quot; &quot;However,&quot; he added. &quot;I want to know what the plan is before we do.&quot; Several lawmakers, including Democratic Reps. Eliot Engel of the Bronx and Louise Slaughter of the Rochester, want to know what the strategy would be for an eventual withd</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...O Estado, had a fascinating account Thursday of what appears to have been a less than happy encounter between U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Latin America subcommitttee, and the Brazilian ambassador. Th</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Brad Sherman (D-CA), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV). What are these legislators thinking? The Jerusalem conference is dedicated, in its own words, &amp;quot;to the promotion of Jewish heritage and values and to Israel&amp;#39;s ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Israeli Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>My rep is Eliot Engel (D-NY-17). From his website: Since it is unacceptable that a country that spends $1.9 trillion has sixteen million uninsured citizens, Rep. Engel is co-sponsoring H.R. 1200, the American Health Security Act of 2007 ...</excerpt>
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      <source>Where Personal and Professional Life Collide... </source>
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      <title>Where Personal and Professional Life Collide... - it&amp;#39;s hard being ...</title>
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      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 04 21:43:51 -0600 2009</created-at>
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      <excerpt>&amp;quot;Next year is a millennium away, politically, so there&amp;#39;s plenty of time for us. I guess we have a lot to be grateful for that the election isn&amp;#39;t next month or next week.&amp;quot; Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said Democrats can boost their fortunes .</excerpt>
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      <source>Not For Nothing </source>
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      <title>Fallout for Dems from Tuesday&amp;#39;s Election - Not For Nothing</title>
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      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 04 21:43:58 -0600 2009</created-at>
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      <excerpt>...there's plenty of time for us. I guess we have a lot to be grateful for that the election isn't next month or next week.&quot;  Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said Democrats can boost their fortunes simply by doing what they promised last November. &quot;I think that </excerpt>
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      <source>The Phoenix: Not for Nothing</source>
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      <title>Fallout for Dems from Tuesday's Election</title>
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      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 04 21:43:51 -0600 2009</created-at>
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      <excerpt>Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Israeli Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. ...</excerpt>
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      <title>LobeLog.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Heavyweight-Hawks Hold Court On The Hill</title>
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      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 05 10:34:10 -0600 2009</created-at>
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      <excerpt>Kathy Castor D FL*Rep. Andre Carson D IN*Rep. Joseph Crowley D NY*Rep. Danny Davis D IL*Rep. Bill Delahunt D MA*Rep. Diane DeGette D CO*Rep. Mike Doyle D PA*Rep. Donna Edwards D MD*Rep. Bob Filner D CA*Rep. Eliot Engel D NY*Rep. ...</excerpt>
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      <source>fraud definition </source>
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      <title>Give Us Liberty: WAY TO STEP UP NEW JERSEY-AMERICA THANKS YOU ...</title>
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      <excerpt>Eliot Engel [D, NY-17] Rep. Bob Etheridge [D, NC-2] Rep. Chaka Fattah [D, PA-2] Rep. Bill Foster [D, IL-14] Rep. Barney Frank [D, MA-4] Rep. Marcia Fudge [D, OH-11] Rep. Gabrielle Giffords [D, AZ-8] Rep. Charles Gonzalez [D, TX-20] Rep. ...</excerpt>
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      <source>No thanks, I'll speak for myself </source>
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      <title>Congressional votes on H.Res. 867 &#171; No thanks, I&amp;#39;ll speak for myself</title>
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      <excerpt>Mike Capuano D MA*Rep. Andre Carson D IN*Rep. Joseph Crowley D NY*Rep. Kathy Castor D FL*Rep. Danny Davis D IL*Rep. Diane DeGette D CO*Rep. Bill Delahunt D MA*Rep. Donna Edwards D MD*Rep. Mike Doyle D PA*Rep. Eliot Engel D NY*Rep. ...</excerpt>
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      <title>Give Us Liberty: Obama&amp;#39;s Thugocracy In Action</title>
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