Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “Thank you for your good suggestions on the bills”

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

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

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.