Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

I have been advocating for the administration to withdraw from the U.S.-Russia nuclear cooperation agreement, the 123 Agreement.

Ukraine is in such tragic need of lethal aid from the U.S.

Enough with the excuses.

Oh, you should read the Cuban Constitution. It is a beauty. They don't follow one word of it, but it is beautiful.

We are just going to talk about a nuclear deal with Rouhani, we will ignore human rights.

If the United States does not lead the way, the international community will be silent.

What signal does that tell the Castro regime? We can do whatever we want and everything is forgiven, and it sends a terrible signal to the human rights activists.

Despite the administration's lip service to the issue of human rights, they have been effectively ignoring human rights in our foreign policy discussion.

I am appreciative of your continued dedicated leadership on this issue.

Thank you for holding this joint subcommittee hearing on this important topic.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for your testimony, gentlemen.

President Obama should learn from history that negotiating with the Castro regime is a failed endeavor.

The White House must stop putting politics ahead of our national security.

Cuba is an avowed enemy of the United States.

The Castro regime undermines our national security at every turn and reinforces instability in the entire region.

Cuba poses a clear and present danger to the United States.

The silence is deafening. And it is no surprise that Nicolas Maduro, the thug of Venezuela, went to Cuba...

And what is true is that since these secret negotiations have taken place, and now 19 months or so, 20 months, the number of arrests in Cuba have also skyrocketed.

And if I might add, and what has changed since you left for a very principled stand--and I congratulate you for that--is that there has been an uptick in the number of Cubans who have left the worker's paradise.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, and I wanted to give the panelists an opportunity to answer my long-winded question.

So I will end and just say there is a lot of brave men and women in Cuba who have--in face of adversity have spoken out against the regime and risked being arrested.

Are her reports still----

How about the killer of this 14-year-old? We know who did it. Why didn't we sanction him yesterday? We have the video.

But he can commit these acts with impunity because nothing happens. We really aren't implementing those sanctions.