Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “This de-listing of these individuals will unfreeze their foreign assets. It will lift their travel bans.”

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

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.

The United States must continue to lead the global response to HIV/AIDS.