Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “The threat of radical Islamists as we all know is not a new phenomenon, and we know that the problem is not just…”

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

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.

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.