Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “If I could ask my good friend the gentleman from California if he would yield 2 minutes of his time to me.”

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.

I would like to tighten the sanctions on those military leaders because I see that as the problem.

This important resolution condemns the Maduro regime for its role in the deterioration of Venezuela's democratic institutions.

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