Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, and I wanted to give the panelists an opportunity to answer my long-winded question.”

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

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.

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

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.