Bronx, NY – Congressman Eliot L. Engel, a top member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced today that the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale has been awarded a $397,172 federal grant from the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration. This funding will help the Hebrew Home conduct research on dementia and other neurological disorders impacting our communities most senior residents.

Congressman Eliot Engel (NY-16) today lauded House passage of H.R. 4861, the Effective Suicide Screening and Assessment in Emergency Department Act, legislation he co-authored with Congressman Gus Bilirakis (FL-12) that aims to improve the identification, assessment and treatment of patients in emergency departments who are at high risk of suicide.

Today, Jewish members of the House of Representatives–led by the most senior Jewish members of Congress, Congressman Eliot L. Engel and Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey–sent a letter to Leader Kevin McCarthy imploring him to cease making anti-Semitism a partisan issue. The members offered to meet with Mr. McCarthy to discuss how these partisan tactics ultimately undermine the bipartisan fight against anti-Semitism.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel issued the following statement after his legislation to preserve first responders' access to T-Band spectrum (470-512 MHz) passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 410 to 5. Rep. Engel's bill, the Don't Break Up the T-Band Act (H.R. 451), repeals a provision of the 2012 Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act which directed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to auction off this band of spectrum by 2021:

Congressman Eliot L. Engel (NY-16), a top Member of the Energy & Commerce Committee's health panel, introduced a resolution today, supported by 19 Members of Congress, calling on federal agencies to take action to promote racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments, vaccines, and diagnostics.

Congressman Eliot Engel issued the following statement:

Two health bills, one co-authored and one co-introduced by Congressman Eliot L. Engel, passed the Energy & Commerce Committee with bipartisan support yesterday.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel, a top Member of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, today announced that a collective $375,000 in federal grants have been awarded to organizations fighting to prevent youth drug abuse in New York's 16th Congressional District.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel led a New York delegation letter to Congressional Leadership calling for additional education funding for New York State's public schools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. New York had been the epicenter of the American COVID-19 outbreak and, with less than a month before schools open, is facing severe shortfalls in education funding. The Engel-led letter calls for stronger education funding in the next major piece of COVID-19 legislation, on top of what has been provided in the CARES Act.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel (NY-16) and Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN) today led a group of 77 bipartisan House Members in marking August 9 to August 15 as National Health Center Week to celebrate the nation's health centers which have been at the frontlines of responding to COVID-19, particularly in underserved communities.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel commended House passage today of a key funding bill for federal health agencies, H.R. 7617, which included provisions he authored that direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to assess the level of investment needed to modernize U.S. hospitals.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel, a top Member of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, participated in a legislative hearing today which included legislation he is co-leading to help develop treatments for pediatric cancers and other rare diseases affecting children.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and cosponsor of the NO BAN Act, issued the following statement today after he voted to pass the Act on the House floor. The NO BAN Act would repeal President Trump's heartless Muslim travel ban:

Congressman Eliot L. Engel (NY-16), a top Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, commended the Energy & Commerce Committee's passage today of the Safeguarding Therapeutics Act, H.R. 5663, a bipartisan bill he co-authored with Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02). This legislation would enable the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to destroy fake medical devices imported from abroad that endanger public health, including fake coronavirus tests and surgical masks.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel commended the House Appropriations Committee yesterday for passing a key funding bill for federal health agencies, which included provisions authored by Congressman Engel that direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to assess the level of investment needed to modernize U.S. hospitals.

As talk of reopening schools in the Fall grows louder, Congressman Eliot L. Engel, joined by Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, led 80 Members of the House calling on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to increase research on the impact of coronavirus on children.

Congressman Eliot Engel's office intervened with plans by the Post Office to end staggered reporting times for mail carriers at the Kingsbridge Branch this week. Since the start of the pandemic, letter carriers have been ordered to report to work at staggered times in order to reduce the amount of workers in a single place at a single time and maintain social distancing. But carriers were told earlier this week that everyone had to report to the office at 8:30am, a stunning reversal following a rash of COVID-19 cases by post office workers just weeks prior.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel (NY-16), a top Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, submitted the following statement into the record for today's hearing on addressing the health needs of the nation's Tribal communities:

Congressman Eliot L. Engel issued the following statement on keeping the Mount Vernon Hospital open:

Congressman Eliot L. Engel participated in a legislative hearing yesterday in the Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee on improving the delivery of mental health care in the United States. The hearing included the Effective Suicide Screening and Assessment in the Emergency Department Act, H.R. 4861, which was authored by Congressman Engel to help emergency departments identify and treat those with a high-risk of suicide.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel today helped pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act, H.R. 1425, which would strengthen Obamacare–better known as the Affordable Care Act–and lower the cost of prescription drugs by allowing the federal government to negotiate drug prices.

Congressman Eliot L. Engel issued the following statement on House passage of H.R. 7120, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a comprehensive approach to police reform in America: