If you are taking the side of the butcher in Damascus over the Syrian people, you are going to get caught up in these sanctions.

Sanctions worked with Iran, and they will work with Syria.

I think he is the only one on this committee that has actually been on this committee longer than me.

I think many of us knew at that moment 6 years ago that things were about to spiral out of control with respect to what was going on in Syria.

We are going to look back and say: Why did we not do more?

I think the United States made a terrible mistake 4 years ago or 5 years ago. I think that we should have aided the Free Syrian Army when they were a real viable force.

Down the road those guilty of war crimes must face the consequences.

I am glad to support this measure, and I thank Chairman Chris Smith for all his hard work.

I am also glad to support legislation authored by Chairman Royce, along with Representative Frankel, which would improve efforts to bring traffickers to justice.

It is important, of course, that we assure medical devices are effective, safe, and readily accessible to those who need them.

At some point or another, every one of us is going to use a medical device without even realizing it.

I am convinced that the administration's reversal on a long-held policy of removing Assad emboldened him to carry out the sarin gas attack in the first place.

We have learned for many, many years, giving any administration a blank check to create war is not something that this Congress should do.

I think it is very important that the President tell the Congress what his plans are in Syria and then the Congress needs to give him authorization to make any kind of military moves.

There must be no further American military action in Syria without congressional say-so.

I think there is no doubt in my mind, and in everybody else's mind, that Assad is really the butcher of Syria.

The President must come to Congress if the Syria strategy includes military involvement.

I think we made a terrible mistake when we didn't aid the Free Syrian Army 4 years ago.

you need to back up those lines but you also need to be consistent.

There is no reason to not be critical of what is happening with the current administration just because the administration didn't do what should have been done.

Only a political transition, one that removes Assad from power, will put the Syrian people on the path toward rebuilding.

I would agree with the concern about allies. I would also add the concern about the Syrian people, who are left confused about what is the new shift in U.S. policy toward intervention.

You cannot fly by the seat of your pants when it comes to foreign policy.

At this point, there seems to be no strategy. A pinpoint missile strike is not a strategy.

I want to express my revulsion at the gas attacks killing innocent Syrian civilians. One of the responses from this Congress should be when we get back, as soon as possible, we pass the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2017. It is…