Eliot Engel: “I think it is now time for us to step up to the business community in the United States...”

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

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

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

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