Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “Clearly the U.N. is an institution that is in need of reform and now.”

The United States and our partners have a responsibility to do everything that we can to ensure humanitarian aid reaches the people of Venezuela.

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.

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