Article: Congressional champions: a human-rights caucus within the Human Rights Caucus.(CAPITOL HILL)(Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Rep. Eliot Engel)(Interview)

LAST month, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Rep. Eliot Engel introduced their Lebanon and Syria Liberation Act. It calls for sanctions on companies and countries that help Syria acquire weapons of mass destruction; it also calls for aid to Syrian and Lebanese pro-democracy and human-rights groups. The bill is a follow-up to the representatives' Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act, which President Bush signed in December 2003. RosLehtinen and Engel don't care much for the Syrian regime, and they don't care much for tyrannical regimes elsewhere, either. They are, indeed, part of a small group of House members who can be counted on to champion human ...

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