Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “Sadly, many of our allies around the world turned a blind eye to that atrocious attack”

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

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.

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