Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “I see no urgency, however, from the Obama administration aimed at pressuring Assad to go.”

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

I am proud to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway), the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and the author of this measure.

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

I would like to tighten the sanctions on those military leaders because I see that as the problem.