Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “The situation in Mali, as we have seen, does not exist in a vacuum.”

I am proud to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway), the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and the author of this measure.

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.