Ed Royce: “In my view, they are not a valuable use of this committee or Congress' time.”

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.

But I will ask both of you, we have got to engage with countries across Africa even the most challenging countries.

Recent leadership by the Governments of Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Paraguay, and Canada to seek to hold Maduro accountable for his crimes against the Venezuelan people is welcome news.

Vladimir Putin is not our friend, and there is simply no comparing the actions of the United States with those of Putin's Russia.