Eliot Engel: “We could be if we were broadcasting into Russia the way we did during the Reagan administration...”

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.

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

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