Eliot Engel: “I happen to think that they have some nerve rejecting him, quite frankly, and so I want to know about the status of…”

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

I introduced the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act several years ago as a response to what we saw in this room.

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

We like to say that the Foreign Affairs Committee... is the most bipartisan committee in Congress.