Eliot Engel: “We can and must do more to stem the global financing of these activities.”

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

Why have there been no designations by us of Russian companies and individuals who are so clearly and shamelessly giving Assad a lifeline?

This legislation could go a long way toward putting Burma back on the path toward democracy.

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