Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “Promoting democracy and governance is not only important for supporting American values, but it is also in our national…”

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.

I add my support for all the measures before us today.

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.