Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “The U.N. institutions repeatedly cast Israel, the Middle East's only liberal democracy, as a pariah state.”

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

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.

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

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