Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “The United States and our partners have a responsibility to do everything that we can to ensure humanitarian aid reaches…”

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

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.

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

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