06/22/2022
https://www.congress.gov...
"Today, the situation is even more dire. Venezuela is the epicenter of the second largest refugee and migration crisis in the world."
"Maduro has weaponized starvation, using it as a political tool to drive over 95 percent of the country--over 26 million people--below the poverty level."
"Three years ago, I walked out on the bridge at the Colombia-Venezuela border in Cucuta and I looked out at Venezuela and saw firsthand the misery and desperation in family after family forced to flee ..."
"That is why I led the charge on my Livable Communities Act, which creates a Federal grant program to incentivize the development of new affordable housing near existing mass transit."