Eliot Engel: “The committee's work on Africa has looked like the vast majority of the work this committee has done under Ed's…”

This coup is a blatant violation of the rights of the Burmese people.

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 could go a long way toward putting Burma back on the path toward democracy.

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