Eliot Engel: “How does USAID's reliance on contractors and NGOs impact the effectiveness of USAID in Haiti, in your opinion?”

I introduced the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act several years ago as a response to what we saw in this room.

This legislation, passed into law last December, mandates the most sweeping sanctions on Assad's enablers.

I think that is scandalous and I think it, frankly, undermines whatever policy we are pursuing in Syria.

We like to say that the Foreign Affairs Committee... is the most bipartisan committee in Congress.