Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

The second is the House Resolution 665, authored by David McKinley of West Virginia and our Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee colleague from California, Mr. Juan Vargas.

I introduced alongside with our ranking member, Congressman Ted Deutch of Florida, that denounces the use of human shields by Hamas and other terrorist organizations.

Today we have before us two timely and important resolutions.

This is not something new or something that caught us unaware.

One of the very first acts of terror of this current regime in Iran was responsible for, after the '79 Islamic revolution, the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

We have no reason to trust this regime but we have decades of proof that shows Iran's true colors.

Iran agreeing to the weak and easy to live up to interim agreement is just another ploy by the regime to win concessions and buy more time.

Instead of offering concessions to the regime, the administration should be pressing Iran to dismantle completely its nuclear program; abandon its support for Assad and its terrorist proxies; and cease its provocations against the U.S. and…

While the administration takes unilateral steps to offer concessions to Iran as it pursues a weak nuclear agreement, it continues to disregard our calls for congressional oversight and our warnings on dealing with Iran while ignoring its…

Iraqi leaders must come together around a political plan for Iraq's future.

The administration wouldn't fall into the trap of Whac-a-Mole foreign policy.

What are our strategic goals and objectives in Iraq at the moment?

If Congress has the ability to vote up or down on a free trade agreement why not on a nuclear agreement?

Why are we holding countries in the Middle East to different standards than in Europe or in Asia?

The Obama administration's misguided policy toward Iran is a game changer and could potentially spark an arms race.

To say that Hezbollah is a resistance organization or a political party with a separate military wing is simply false.

If Iran wants to show the world that they can be trusted, whether they can be taken at their word, then come through on the promise to assist in reuniting Bob Levinson with his family.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H. Res. 435 offered by the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Thank you very much, all of you, for powerful testimony.

This was an opportunity for the United States to lend its support for a reform movement in Iran, but instead the administration refused to support the Green Movement.

It was thought that the human rights situation in Iran couldn't possibly get any worse than it was under the tyranny of Ahmadinejad.

The Baha'i community is the largest single non-Muslim minority community in Iran, yet since the 1979 revolution, they have faced unrelenting and unforgiving persecution by the Islamic regime.

As we finally leave Afghanistan, we need to make sure we are communicating effectively and honestly with the American people about our departure and what will come next.

Without appropriate oversight, money will go to waste in Afghanistan.

In closing, I yield the remainder of our time to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), subcommittee chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, whose bill will be before us today, cochair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and a…