Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “Nobody cares more about the future of that area, about the health of that area than those that use it.”

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.

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

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

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