Washington, Jan 10: Washington,Friday, January 10, 2003: Democratic Congressman Joseph Crowley, the new co-chairman of the India Caucus, has said that "it is of the utmost importance that closer ties are forged between the largest democracy and the oldest one."
The seventh district of New York from which he hails (including Jackson Heights and Queens), Crowley points out, contains 40,000 Indian Americans, the second highest concentration of any district in the United States.
The Caucus, he points out, helps facilitate "more Indian American connectedness" and involvement in the US Congress. "I look forward to working hard with members of the India Caucus and the Indian Americans in my district to promote trade, technology and labour," he said Thursday.

Crowley travelled to India in January 2002 with the Confederation of Indian Industry for an economic forum and to meet with Prime Minister Vajpayee. He is also a member of the influential Committee on International Relations and its Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. Bureau Report