Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “This year's budget request for the Middle East and North Africa, sadly, is no different.”

It's important to note Ranking Member Engel's BURMA Act, which still needs to be passed and that aims to impose additional sanctions.

As a person who lost her native homeland, Cuba, to communism, where we don't have elections, I always say that it is wonderful to get interrupted by elections and by votes.

I add my support for all the measures before us today.

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