Eliot Engel: “The only way for the regime to ends its political and economic isolation is to abandon its current course.”

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

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.

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