Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

This bill would require the State Department to develop a strategy to partner with our Caribbean neighbors on everything from counternarcotics to energy security.

I am proud to be the Republican lead, alongside my good friend and the ranking member, Eliot Engel, on the U.S.-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act.

Continued U.S. assistance to Israel is so critical to ensuring that the Jewish state can protect herself against the threats that we're talking about today.

It's the message they receive from the Palestinian leadership and Abu Mazen and this is where the U.S. can do more.

Unfortunately, as both of our speakers have pointed out, this hearing is quite timely. Israel fell victim to a disgusting terror attack as 21 people were injured in a bus bombing in Jerusalem just yesterday.

They are a terrorist group. It is 'The Emperor has no clothes,' but if we don't want to see it, it doesn't mean that he is, nonetheless, naked.

Iran will not have access to the American financial system.

It is critical that we ensure that Israel's qualitative military edge is intact and vigorously enforced.

I fully support the request to honor the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, with our closest ally, the Democratic Jewish State of Israel.

I strongly urge the administration to conclude the negotiations on a new robust MOU with Israel in an expeditious manner.

I remain extremely disappointed that the OAS continues to fail to live up to its obligations to support the respect for human rights and uphold democratic principles.

We must advance policies that support American manufacturing in order to bolster private investment and create more jobs in our Nation.

It is vital that we send the message to the North Korean dictatorship that our strong partnership with South Korea will continue to be strengthened under the ideals of freedom and democracy.

The OAS is very silent when it comes to many of the abuses in the region, but they are very vocal when it comes to criticizing this country.

I was extremely disappointed to see that our State Department's latest human rights report on China quoted a Chinese official's unsubstantiated and dubious claim that any harvesting of organs from prisoners would now be voluntary.

This is a resolution which condemns China's ongoing, gruesome practice of harvesting organs from the followers of Falun Gong.

I am proud to have introduced H. Res. 343 with my dear friend, Gerry Connolly, who has been a good partner throughout my years here.

The strategic location of the naval station is of extreme importance and it plays a pivotal role for our military capabilities in the region.

This bill would ensure that the Obama administration cannot close or abandon the Naval Station of Guantanamo Bay without congressional action.

Will you commit, Mr. Secretary, to the families of these victims today that you will seek the extradition of Castro regime officials responsible for the shoot down?

I remain firmly opposed to your administration's offer continually to get a waiver to the law that prohibits U.S. funds from going to UNESCO.

This administration must also ensure that whistleblowers are reinstated at WIPO immediately.

I hope that this administration would use every bit of its voice, its vote, its influence at WIPO and with the member states to ensure that Gurry is removed from office as soon as possible.

And so I just want to thank you for your leadership, thank Mr. Deutch for his continued involvement on behalf of his constituency and we will all of us join together in a bipartisan way to support this effort.

Fundamentally, that if we allow the American people to believe that we are going to tolerate a regime that not only has unbelievable humanitarian atrocities that continue to get leveled on an almost daily basis but that we are going to…