Eliot Engel actually said...

"I am convinced that the administration's reversal on a long-held policy of removing Assad emboldened him to carry out the sarin gas attack in the first place."

"There must be no further American military action in Syria without congressional say-so."

"We have learned for many, many years, giving any administration a blank check to create war is not something that this Congress should do."

"I think we made a terrible mistake when we didn't aid the Free Syrian Army 4 years ago."