Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

But they must not come at the expense of human rights and they must take into account the interest and the obligations we have with our free trade partners, especially in our own hemisphere.

However, as we negotiate trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, we must not lose sight of the values that we are trying to protect, like human rights as we achieve trade pacts with responsible nations.

In Vietnam, there is no rule of law. There is no freedom of the press. There is no freedom of speech.

The people of Vietnam are living under a brutal Communist regime, which is imprisoning thousands of political dissidents, prisoners of conscious, and ethnic and religious minorities.

Yes, we must counter China's expansion and increasing aggression whenever and wherever possible.

ISIL doesn't discriminate. You are either with the terrorists or they will destroy you or subjugate you.

Many of us in this committee have decried the fact that the Iranian regime's deplorable human rights record and its persecution of religious minorities were not made a part of the nuclear negotiations from day one.

It is imperative that we not only defeat ISIL but we find a way to defeat its radical ideology as well.

We must acknowledge that ISIL doesn't just target religious minorities. Everyone who doesn't ascribe to its form of Islam is a target.

We cannot successfully strengthen these government institutions and root out corruption unless drug trafficking is curtailed and the security environment is improved.

I don't believe that throwing money at the problem without a comprehensive strategy will help to fix the crisis.

We must continue to fully support our allies in the region as much as we can, and this bill will signal to them that we stand ready to back them in their efforts to take on terror and to bring stability to a violence-plagued region.

Jordan has done a great job of taking the fight to ISIL, but the Kingdom needs more resources to bolster their capabilities.

H.R. 907 is a simple, straightforward, common sense bill that not only helps secure U.S. national security interests, but also the security interests of one of our closest allies in the Middle East region, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Time is of the essence, Mr. Chairman, in the fight against ISIL, and we have none to spare.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 907 offered by the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida.

From the very beginning, most of us in Congress decried these negotiations because they only focused on the nuclear aspect of Iran's illicit behavior.

What makes this whole nuclear negotiations debacle even more rotten is that President Obama has been disingenuous at best with Congress and with the American public about what is really in this deal.

Allowing access to Iran's nuclear sites declared or undeclared still ultimately resides with the regime.

The administration is hoping for a political solution without also having our own comprehensive strategy in the region.

It is important to not minimize Iran's role in Yemen or the sectarian nature of this conflict, as I believe the administration seems determined to do.

I am also very concerned about the plight of civilians in one of the poorest countries in the world.

Well, I do worry about it because we have a lot of American personnel, Embassies, consulates, we have a presence throughout that region.

We want to work with our allies, but if those allies are sharing information or they are in cahoots with terror organizations, we end up unknowingly doing more harm than good.

One of the most important issues that this committee and the entire Congress can consider is the AUMF, the authorization for use of military force.