FILE - Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, right, accompanied by Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to the reporeters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, following a meeting between President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders to discuss the situation in Syria. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)