Ed Royce: “empowering women can be the best way to lift them and their families out of that poverty.”

I urge we use this responsibility and adopt this resolution.

These efforts build on previous U.S. sanctions as well as those by Canada, the European Union, and Switzerland.

We cannot expect Vladimir Putin and his corrupt associates to change their behavior in Syria, in Ukraine, or anywhere else until we prove we will hold them to account.

I have one more speaker. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Roskam), a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, and co-chair of the bipartisan Task Force on Combating Anti-Semitism.