Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “I am so pleased to yield 4 minutes to my good friend, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), who is the chairman of…”

This important resolution condemns the Maduro regime for its role in the deterioration of Venezuela's democratic institutions.

In 2014, we supported a resolution that this committee passed--Jim McGovern's House Resolution 418, which called for an end to persecution.

We had Joe Crowley and Steve Chabot, who's a wonderful member of our committee, pass an important bill condemning the ethnic cleansing going on.

I would like to tighten the sanctions on those military leaders because I see that as the problem.