Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “Promoting and defending human rights worldwide is one of our core values.”

I am proud to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Conaway), the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and the author of this measure.

This important bill would extend this longstanding bipartisan lifesaving program for another 5 years.

The United States must continue to lead the global response to HIV/AIDS.

It's important to note Ranking Member Engel's BURMA Act, which still needs to be passed and that aims to impose additional sanctions.