Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “This, quite frankly, is unacceptable.”

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

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

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.