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On the recordDecember 8, 2020
This legislation, passed into law last December, mandates the most sweeping sanctions on Assad's enablers.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel highlights the sanctions imposed by the Caesar Act on those supporting Assad.

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