Eliot Engel: “We need to make serious investments.”

I particularly want to thank Chairman Engel for his leadership, as well as the whole committee, for making the Caesar Act a reality.

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

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

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