Ed Royce: “The Department has insisted that the committee staff sift through thousands of pages of materials.”

The Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which was authored by myself and Mr. Eliot Engel, empowered the administration with some of the most potent weapons yet.

We cannot expect Vladimir Putin and his corrupt associates to change their behavior in Syria, in Ukraine, or anywhere else until we prove we will hold them to account.

As they say, never again, and here it is going on with the international community held spellbound in the middle of it.

Let me begin by thanking Mr. Engel, the author of this measure, and I express my deep appreciation for his help in all that we have undertaken with our committee. There are, as Eliot knows, 70 million men, women, and children who have been…