Eliot Engel actually said...

"My Republicans colleagues' actions here remind me of a story I read when I was a little boy and that's the story of 'Chicken Little' who ran around yelling the sky is falling, the sky is falling, but ..."

"the worst possible thing the international community could do in Syria is to deploy the International Criminal Court to go after war criminals in that country."

"I think the United States is not going to be prepared to act unilaterally, as it threatened to do in the Balkans."

"I think this is a conflict where there are bad actors on all sides."