Eliot Engel: “To put it simply, we have got to get it done. Lives are at stake.”

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

This coup is a blatant violation of the rights of the Burmese people.

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

Self-government is not some sort of temporary arrangement or gift from the military, it's a right that's owed to the people of Burma.