Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “While many may turn a blind eye to the reality that plagues the Cuban people, Amnesty International does not.”

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 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 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.