Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “Thank you so much, Mr. Deutch, and thank you for your leadership role.”

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 bill would extend this longstanding bipartisan lifesaving program for another 5 years.

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

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