Former member of Congress · last served 116th Congress
Eliot L. Engel
Eliot Engel was a Democratic U.S. representative from New York, first elected to Congress in 1989, who voted with most Democrats on 94% of the 112th Congress’s yes/no votes and sponsored 2 bills that became law (113th–116th Congress).
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments — American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Agreeing to the Resolution — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 8) to extend certain tax relief provisions enacted in 2001 and…Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — Drywall Safety Act of 2012Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment — To provide for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska.Jan 1, 2013 · Passed
- NayOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Congressional Pay Freeze and Fiscal Responsibility ActJan 1, 2013 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.Res. 996 Expressing the sense of Congress that the activities of Russian national Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his affiliated entities pose a threat to the national…Dec 3, 2020 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.Res. 958 Condemning the practice of politically motivated imprisonment and calling for the immediate release of political prisoners in the Russian Federation and…Dec 3, 2020 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- H.Res. 1033 Condemning acts by the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region that violate fundamental rights and…Nov 18, 2020 · The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
- H.R. 8707 Middle East Advanced Military Technology Protection ActOct 30, 2020 · Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
- H.R. 451 Don’t Break Up the T-Band Act of 2020Sep 24, 2020 · Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1828 (108th) Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003Became law
- H.R. 2826 (103rd) To provide for an investigation of the whereabouts of the United States citizens and others who have been missing from Cyprus since 1974.Became law
- H.R. 5265 (110th) Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2008Became law
- H.R. 6199 (110th) 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…Became law
- H.R. 3548 (109th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located on Franklin Avenue in Pearl River, New York, as the "Heinz Ahlmeyer, Jr. Post Office…Became law
- H.R. 3166 (108th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 57 Old Tappan Road in Tappan, New York, as the "John G. Dow Post Office Building".Became law
- H.R. 4618 (108th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10 West Prospect Street in Nanuet, New York, as the "Anthony I. Lombardi Memorial…Became law
- H.R. 988 (107th) To designate the United States courthouse located at 40 Centre Street in New York, New York, as the "Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse".Became law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Engel has won
Rep. Engel has won 16 U.S. House elections (1988–2018). Of the contested races, margins ran from 24.1 to 50.8 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has New York’s 16th district done while Rep. Engel served?
2013 to 2019 in NY-16: typical household income was up 7% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 4.6 points.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in New York’s 16th district during Engel’s time representing it (2013 to 2021). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
One set of district lines. NY-16 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Engel’s term so far (2013 to 2019) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
116th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 74 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 74 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 49 | See the 49 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 8 | See the 8 → |
| With a committee report listed | 3 | See the 3 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 116th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.