Biography
A Representative from New York. Born in New York, Bronx County, N. Y. , February 18, 1947. Attended Bronx public schools. B. A. , Hunter-Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, N. Y. , 1969. M. A. , Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, N. Y. , 1973. J. D. , New York Law School, New York, N. Y. , 1987. Teacher. Member of the New York state assembly, 1977-1988. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred First and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3,1989-January 3, 2021). Unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020. Chair, Committee on Foreign Affairs (One Hundred Sixteenth Congress).