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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is a former U.S. Representative who served Florida's 18th congressional district from 1989 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first Hispanic woman elected to the U.S. Congress. Throughout her tenure, Ros-Lehtinen was known for her strong advocacy on issues related to Cuba, human rights, and foreign policy. She played a significant role in promoting legislation aimed at supporting democracy and human rights in Cuba, often speaking out against the Castro regime.
I would like to recognize the Friendship Circle of Miami, a program provided by the Chabad of Kendall & Pinecrest that offers much-needed acceptance to children and young individuals with special needs by providing them with the skills to…
I have been calling for sanctions against those who poisoned Vladimir Kara-Murza.
sanctions against Russia have never been fully implemented, have never been fully enforced.
I have consistently been arguing for additional sanctions on Russian officials for their human rights violations.
I want to encourage everyone in south Florida to come out to Zoo Miami this Sunday, March 12, for the Families for Fragile X Monkey Madness 5K Run/Walk. Fragile X syndrome is the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability…
I would like to recognize Jonathan Aguiar, a wonderful student at Christopher Columbus High School, whom I recently met, for his efforts that are known as KNOW MORE. He started this organization KNOW MORE, and it is an organization founded…
As we observe National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I urge our south Florida community to attend the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness Walk this Saturday, March 4, at Tradewinds Park. The walk will celebrate everybody's shape and…
Appalling human rights violations take place in my native homeland of Cuba on a regular basis and have only gotten worse in the past few years. Just last week, the Castro regime sentenced a man to a year in prison. What was his crime? He…
Vladimir Putin's regime has long sought to undermine U.S. interests and shape a world more compliant with its corruption. I have argued for a stronger stance against Russia for years. I opposed the Obama administration's failed reset of…
We have seen those countries make significant progress in fighting corruption, but the attorneys general of these countries need our support.
I would like to thank the members of my south Florida community who came out last Saturday to the Live Like Bella Superhero 5K Run/Walk at Zoo Miami. Live Like Bella works every day to fight pediatric cancer through medical research while…
The U.S. position must be that Josh Holt and all the political prisoners including Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma must be released immediately and unconditionally.
As our Nation celebrates American Heart Month, I want to highlight the groups and individuals working to ensure that south Florida is filled with healthy hearts. Organizations like the Ft. Lauderdale-Miami chapter of the American Heart…
Yesterday the new administration, including Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, took decisive action to hold Venezuelan regime officials accountable for their elicit activity. The announcement was that two…
I am so honored that the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) is here to listen to this important 1 minute, as he always does. Israel Bonds recently hosted its annual award ceremony at the Fontainebleau Hotel located in Miami Beach, in my…
In 1944, President Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board in order to undertake efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis and the atrocities of the Holocaust. That same year, a young Swedish diplomat accepted an appointment to travel to…
This Saturday night is Israel Bonds' ``Una Noche en la Playa''--``A Night on the Beach''--in Miami Beach. Over the years, I have had the honor of participating in many of Israel Bonds' programs. The work that Israel Bonds does is vital in…
As our Nation celebrates National Catholic Schools Week, I rise to recognize the lasting contributions of Catholic education in my south Florida community. Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, and…
It was a departure in policy by the Obama administration and it was a move that was opposed by many of us in Congress.
We must reconsider our current assistance programs for the PA and our relationship with Abu Mazen.
The real practical impact of 2334 is that it leaves the possibility of peace even more remote.
The U.N. institutions repeatedly cast Israel, the Middle East's only liberal democracy, as a pariah state.
Politicians like Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
