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Eliot Engel: “This bill would impose new sanctions on any parties that continue to do business with the Assad regime.”

On the recordJuly 13, 2016
This bill would impose new sanctions on any parties that continue to do business with the Assad regime.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel outlines the sanctions proposed in the Caesar Syrian Civilian Protection Act.

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