Eliot Engel: “I hope that this committee as well as the U.S. Congress comes firmly down against the use of any force against anybody…”

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 know Mr. Meeks very well and I know that he will do an excellent job--an excellent job--as chairman.

Self-government is not some sort of temporary arrangement or gift from the military, it's a right that's owed to the people of Burma.