Eliot Engel: “I supported the FTA with Colombia, and I believe that Colombia is a tremendous example of a country that works with us.”

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

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

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

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