Eliot Engel actually said...

This bill will certainly help us accomplish the first by tightening the financial noose around Assad's neck.

We want to make sure that our actions in this body, to the extent possible, provide incentives for democratic forces, not discourage them.

I will be offering an amendment that will call for Bashar al-Assad and senior regime officials to be referred to an international tribunal.

No issue concerns me more deeply than that of the disposition of Syria's weapons of mass destruction.