Political Quotes

I thank my friend, my colleague from Florida, for the time. Mr. Speaker, when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in the year 2007--and this was through legislation that I had the privilege of authoring with Tom Lantos…

The Global Magnitsky Act, authored by our colleague, Chris Smith, has become a very important tool and I am pleased to see that the administration has made use of it, especially in Nicaragua.

I am also proud to have authored the Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act and have helped secure the passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Act.

I have an amendment to the preamble at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Strike the preamble and insert the following: Whereas in 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994…