Eliot Engel: “I don't find it compelling that we can operate the State Department and diplomacy with a 33 percent cut.”

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

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

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

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