Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “I could not be prouder of the people of Venezuela who are standing up and demanding that their voices are heard.”

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.

We had Joe Crowley and Steve Chabot, who's a wonderful member of our committee, pass an important bill condemning the ethnic cleansing going on.

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.