It is in that spirit I will support this bill for the purposes of this markup.

I, too, applaud the Trump Administration and the Biden Administration for supporting the Abraham Accords.

I strongly support this bill. A special envoy is precisely what we need right now to raise the emphasis of these important accords.

I brought up this legislation and the importance of the Abraham Accords.

I appreciate so much the very significant work of the Ranking Member Dean Phillips.

So, it is sickening that we are essentially abandoning the rest of Syria to Assad's torture and murder.

This bill significantly strengthens existing sanctions on those who support Assad and imposes real penalties to those considering normalizing with this brutal regime.

We should always recognize how courageous they are to provide for the people of Syria.

However, the normalization with an unrepentant dictator and kleptocrat who continues bombing the earthquake-devastated areas of Syria does not represent a viable path forward.

Stop the wishful thinking. They are not our friends here.

They are killing Americans intentionally. If you do not get that, you probably belong in a different line of work.