Former US Rep. Eliot Engel, who worked on foreign affairs for decades, dies at 79
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FILE - Ranking Member Rep. Eliot Engel before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, on the Obama administration's case for the Iran Nuclear Agreement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)FILE - Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, right, accompanied by Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to the reporeters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, following a meeting between President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders to discuss the situation in Syria. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)FILE - Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, left, and Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, right, leave a news conference where they discussed the next steps of the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)FILE - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., walks out of an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, near the area where U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland is being interviewed as part of the impeachment inquiry. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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FILE - Ranking Member Rep. Eliot Engel before a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, on the Obama administration's case for the Iran Nuclear Agreement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)